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 29
A Henan olive-glazed oviform wine jar Jin/Yuan Dynasty
12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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A Henan olive-glazed oviform wine jar
Jin/Yuan Dynasty
The exterior covered with a rich dark glossy olive glaze, painted around the broad body in a darker iron-brown with long curling leafy sprays of peony, the short neck with a raised central rib. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high
The exterior covered with a rich dark glossy olive glaze, painted around the broad body in a darker iron-brown with long curling leafy sprays of peony, the short neck with a raised central rib. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high
Footnotes
金/元 橄欖綠釉花紋罐
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Acquired from Perret-Vibert, Paris by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 10 April 1949
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London by Dennis Barnham, 6 May 1949
Acquired from Dennis Barnham by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 22 December 1949
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London by Rupert A. Willis, 28 December 1949
Acquired from Rupert A. Willis by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 27 August 1954
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd. London, 14 September 1954
The Cunliffe Collection, no.ZC16, and thence by descent
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1954年9月14日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號ZC16，並由後人保存迄今
Compare with a similar olive-glazed jar dated to the Jin/Yuan dynasty, formerly in the Falk Collection, which was sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2001, lot 86. See also a related oviform jar, with stylised chrysanthemum sprays, illustrated by R.D.Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard, 1996, pp.165-166, no.55.
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