J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics in Black and White
March 20–April 10, 2010
33.
A CARVED WHITE-GLAZED CIZHOU STONEWARE VASE (YUHUCHUN PING)
Song-Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th–14th Century
of pear shape, tapering to a slender neck and trumpet mouth, covered with a creamy-white slip and decorated with two wide bands of lotus, lily pads and foliage, all freely carved through the white slip to the pale stoneware ground and covered with a transparent glaze, below a collar of zig-zag leaves and discs in the same technique around the base of the neck, with incised line details throughout, the zones of decoration divided by multiple line borders, the glaze ending above the thick ring foot with splayed sides and chamfered edge, the recessed base splashed with white slip.
Height 111⁄2 inches (29.2 cm)
From the Collection of Alexander J. Argyropoulos, Athens, Ambassador to China from Greece in the late 1940s, acquired before 1950
A very similar yuhuchun ping with lotus decoration which was shown at several museums in Japan in the traveling exhibition organized by the Kau Chi Society of Hong Kong is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue entitled Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1992, p. 43, no. 33.
宋/元 磁州白釉刻花玉壺春瓶 高 29.2 厘米
33.
A CARVED WHITE-GLAZED CIZHOU STONEWARE VASE (YUHUCHUN PING)
Song-Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th–14th Century
Height 111⁄2 inches (29.2 cm)