Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Property from the Cunliffe Collection of Chinese Art
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Lot 28
A Henan russet-painted black-glazed jar, guan Jin/Yuan Dynasty
12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £11,875 inc. premium
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A Henan russet-painted black-glazed jar, guan
Jin/Yuan Dynasty
The large ovoid vessel rising from a small circular foot to a bulging belly, rounded shoulders and short lip, the globular body freely painted in broad russet strokes with four abstractly rendered birds in flight, all reserved on a rich lustrous black glaze. 17cm (6 3/4in) high
The large ovoid vessel rising from a small circular foot to a bulging belly, rounded shoulders and short lip, the globular body freely painted in broad russet strokes with four abstractly rendered birds in flight, all reserved on a rich lustrous black glaze. 17cm (6 3/4in) high
Footnotes
金/元 黑釉鐵銹彩三鳳紋酒罐
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Acquired from Dunt King by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 11 July 1951
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 2 August 1951
The Cunliffe Collection, no.ZC13, and thence by descent
Exhibited and Published:
Mostra D'arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, no.505
Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, no.75
來源： 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任，Rolf Cunliffe勳爵 (1899-1963)
於1951年8月2日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號ZC13，並由後人保存迄今
展覽及出版：
1954年於威尼斯「Mostra D'arte Cinese(中國藝術)」特展展出，展品505號
1960年於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「Arts of the Sung Dynasty(宋代藝術)」特展展出，展品75號
Compare with a similarly shaped ovoid jar with related decoration of stylised birds in flight, dated to the Jin Dynasty, illustrated by R.D.Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp.163-164, no.54.
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