Lot 832. A rare painted Jizhou bottle, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high. Estimate: USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 27,500. © Christie's 2021

The bottle is painted in brown on a white slip with lotus blossoms, leaves, and seed pods on scrolling stems, enhanced with details, all under a clear glaze.

Provenance: Kaikodo, New York.
Henry Ginzberg Collection, 2009.

Literature: Kaikodo Journal, New York, Autumn 2000, no. 72.
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2010, no. 57.

Exhibited: New York, Kaikodo, 2000.
New York, Kaikodo, 2010.

Note: The painting of the botanical scroll on this handsome bottle is remarkable for the sense of fluidity and spontinaity of the brushwork and the carefully orchestrated pattern of the design across the surface of the vessel. A related overall pattern of lotus, but in reverse, with the flowers and leaves reserved against a dark ground, can be found on a Jizhou bottle dated to the Southern Song period, 13th century, in the Anhui Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan, taoci juan, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 290, no. 406. Similar lotus pattern can also be found on a printed textile from a tomb in Fujian whose occupent died in 1243. See Fuzhou Nansong Huangshengmu, Beijing, 1982, p. 125, fig. 91.