Lot 2835. A Rare Sgraffiato Cizhou ‘Peony’ Meiping, Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 11th-12th Century. Estimate HK$400,000-600,000 ($52,000-78,000). Unsold. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The exterior of the vase is freely carved with three pairs of peony blossoms borne on meandering scrolls issuing broad leaves, between a band of elongated petals around the foot and a band of rounded petals on the shoulder, and is covered with creamy white slip under a clear glaze against the buff body, with the exception of the deeply sunken base which reveals the buff biscuit. 12 º inch. (31 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance: Kochukyo, Tokyo

Exhibited: Kochukyo, Soji (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 2 to 4 October 1998, Catalogue, no. 26
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Charm of Black & White Ware: Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, 1 October to 8 December 2002, Catalogue, no. 36

Literature: Kochukyo, Soji (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 1998, no. 26
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Charm of Black & White Ware: Transition of Cizhou Type Wares, 2002, no. 36

Christie's. THE CLASSIC AGE OF CHINESE CERAMICS - THE LINYUSHANREN COLLECTION, PART I, 2 December 2015, Convention Hall.