Lot 512. A large Cizhou white-glazed baluster vase, Northern Song dynasty (960-1126); 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 50,000 - USD 70,000. Price realised USD 100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

The vase has a tapering, ovoid body raised on a spreading foot and is surmounted by a trumpet neck beneath an outward-curved mouth rim. The exterior is covered with a white slip under a milky transparent crackled glaze suffused with patches of pale russet, which stops above the foot to reveal the pale brownish-grey body, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: The Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Sotheby's London, 9 June 2004, lot 56.

Literature: The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Chukogu bijutsu ten, Series 4: So Gen bijutsu, (Art of the Song and Yuan Dynasties), Osaka, 1978, no. 1-137.
The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, So Gen no bijutsu (Arts of the Song and Yuan Periods), Osaka, 1980, pl. 142.
The Toguri Museum of Art, Kaikai kinen meihin ten (Commemorative Exhibition for the Opening), Tokyo, 1987, no. 13.
The Toguri Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, Tokyo, 1988, no. 54.
The Toguri Museum of Art, Zaidan Hojin Toguri Bijutsukan zohin zenshu: Seireki 2000 nen kinen zouruku (Selected Works from the Toguri Museum of Art Foundation: Commemorative Catalogue of the Year 2000 AD), Tokyo, 2000, pl. 17.
The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Special Exhibition, Charm of Black & White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka, 2002, no. 3.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 122-123, no. 48.
Rosemary Scott, ‘Chinese Classic Wares from a Japanese Collection: Song Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2014, pp. 97-108, fig. 23.

Exhibited: The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Chukogu bijutsu ten, Series 4: So Gen bijutsu, (Art of the Song and Yuan Dynasties) Osaka, 15 October to 12 November 1978.
The Toguri Museum of Art, Kaikai kinen meihin ten (Commemorative Exhibition for the Opening), Tokyo, 1987.
The Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Special Exhibition, Charm of Black & White Ware; Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, Osaka, 1 October to 8 December 2002.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.

Christie's. The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics - The Linyushanren Collection, Part III, 22 March 2018, New York