J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
MenuPast Exhibition
The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
54.
A BLACK-GLAZED CIZHOU STONEWARE VASE
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
of elegant form, the barrel-shaped body surmounted by a narrow cylindrical neck rising from a simple stepped collar at the top of the plain sloping shoulders to a flaring flower-shaped mouth with five down-turned petals around the rippled rim, the fine glossy glaze of even, dark tone thinning to pale brown over the projecting edges and ending in a line well above the base, resting on a low ring foot with neatly chamfered edge, revealing the dense very pale gray stoneware body.
Height 7 7⁄8 inches (20 cm)
The glaze and body of this vessel are characteristic of black- and brown-glazed vessels made at various kilns in Henan and Hebei during the Song dynasty, and the treatment of the mouth rim, the raised collar around the shoulder and the knife-pared shape of the foot rim all are typical of Northern black-glazed wares, but no other example of this particular form appears to have been previously published.
Compare the Cizhou black-glazed vase with high foot and cylindrical neck rising to a rippled rim illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 529.
宋 磁州黑釉長頸荷葉口瓶 高 20 厘米
