Northern Song-Jin Dynasty

A green-glazed painted 'Cizhou' vase, meiping. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty. Photo Sotheby's the slender body gently rising from the foot and curving to a well defined shoulder, surmounted by a short neck and beveled rim, painted freely with flowers and leaves between solid bands and wavy lines, applied overall with an rich translucent green glaze. Height 13 1/4 in., 33.7 cm. Estimation: 30,000 - 40,000 USD - Unsold. PROVENANCE: John Sparks, Ltd., London, circa 1967. Sotheby's. Fine Chinese... [Lire la suite]

A Cizhou-Type Russet-Striped Blackish-Brown-Glazed Bowl. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 12th-13th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The straight sides and interior are covered with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze decorated with stripes of matte russet glaze, which pools in a line on the exterior where the body tapers towards the knife-cut foot to expose the pale grey ware. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) diam.  Estimate $3,000 - $5,000 北宋/金 磁州窰系黑釉褐斑直口盌 Provenance: The Falk Collection II; Christie's New... [Lire la suite]

A Cizhou-Type Russet-Splashed Blackish-Brown-Glazed Bowl. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 12th-13th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The rounded, conical body is covered on the interior and upper exterior with a lustrous, variegated, blackish-brown glaze that is decorated on the interior with five russet splashes, and on the exterior falls in an irregular line atop a thin brown glaze that ends irregularly above the foot to expose the granular ware that has fired to a buff color. 7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm.) diam.... [Lire la suite]

A Yaozhou Celadon Carved Conical Bowl. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 10th-12th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The widely flared sides rise from the small foot to the very slightly everted rim. The interior is carved with a graceful peony stem bearing one blossom surrounded by the scrolling leaves. The bowl and base are covered with a crackled glaze of sea-green color. 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000 北宋/金 耀州窰青釉刻牡丹紋笠式盌 Provenance: Kaikodo Gallery, New York, 2002.  Notes: A... [Lire la suite]

A Cizhou-Type Russet and Blackish-Brown-Glazed Dish. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 10th-13th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The dish has shallow rounded sides, and is covered with a russet skin on the interior and exterior that thins in areas to expose the lustrous, blackish-brown under glaze, and ends in an irregular line above the ring foot to expose the pale grey body. 6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) diam. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000 北宋/金 磁州窰系黑褐釉盤 Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2001.  ... [Lire la suite]

A Cizhou-Type Painted Bean-Shaped Pillow. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 12th-13th Century.  Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The concave top is decorated with a peony spray within an incised foliate-shaped medallion and five demi-blossoms at the edge. All is painted in a rich dark brown slip on a white-slip ground and covered with a colorless glaze. There are two small vent holes in one side. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) - Estimate $8,000 - $12,000 北宋/金 磁州窰系白地褐花牡丹紋枕 Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd., London, before... [Lire la suite]

A Junyao Shallow Dish. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 11th-12th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The shallow sides flare out from the small unglazed foot ring to the shallow upright rim. The interior, exterior and interior of the foot are covered in a glaze of milky blue color that thins to mushroom on the edge of the rim. 7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000 北宋/金 鈞窰天藍釉盤 Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part II, 13 September 2012. New York, Rockefeller Plaza

A Large Dingyao Carved Lobed Conical Bowl. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 11th-12th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The bowl is well potted with a deep, rounded conical body, and is carved in the center with a lotus spray below six slender fillets of slip that rise to shallow indentations in the lobed rim, which also correspond to six lines carved on the exterior. The glaze, of ivory tone, gathers in tears on the exterior and continues over the narrow ring foot to cover the base. The rim has a metal mount. 8 in.... [Lire la suite]

An Unusual Yaozhou Celadon Bowl and Cover. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 10th-13th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012 The bowl, which is of compressed globular shape, is covered inside and out with a crackle-suffused glaze of greyish-green color that ends in a neat line above the countersunk base, exposing the fine-grained body. The domed cover, with stem finial and everted rim molded as six overturned petals, is covered with a similar glaze that continues just over the edge of the rim. 5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.... [Lire la suite]

Jar, carved and glazed stoneware, Yaozhou ware, China, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th century. Height: 10.8 cm. CIRC.71-1935. Purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund, the Vallentin Bequest, Sir Percival David and the Universities China Committee. © V&A Images. This jar is an example of the Yaozhou wares typical of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). While the wares produced at the Yaozhou kiln complex enjoyed popularity from the end of the Tang dynasty (618-906) through to the beginning of the Yuan... [Lire la suite]