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 30
A fine Henan black-glazed pear-shaped vase, yuhuchun ping Jin Dynasty
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12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
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A fine Henan black-glazed pear-shaped vase, yuhuchun ping
Jin Dynasty
Of broad pear shape rising from a low foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, covered overall with a lustrous brownish-black glaze speckled with rust-brown and two stylised birds in flight boldly painted in caramel-brown. 28cm (11in) high
Of broad pear shape rising from a low foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, covered overall with a lustrous brownish-black glaze speckled with rust-brown and two stylised birds in flight boldly painted in caramel-brown. 28cm (11in) high
Footnotes
金 黑釉鐵銹斑玉壺春瓶
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Dennis Haworth Collection
Acquired from Dennis Haworth by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 25 May 1949
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 29 June 1949
The Cunfliffe Collection, no.ZC10, and thence by descent
Exhibited and Published:
Manchester City Art Gallery, Chinese Art Exhibition, Manchester, 3 April - 16 May 1936, no. 245
Oriental Ceramic Society, Sung Dynasty Wares: Ting, Ying Ch'ing and Tz'u Chou, London, 9 November - 17 December 1949, no.151
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1949年6月29日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號ZC10，並由後人保存迄今
展覽及出版：
1936年4月3日至5月16日於曼徹斯特市立藝廊「Chinese Art Exhibition(中國藝術)」特展展出，展品245號
1949年11月9日至12月17日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「Sung Dynasty Wares: Ting, Ying Ch'ing and Tz'u Chou(宋代器物：定窯、影青及磁州陶瓷)」特展展出，展品151號
A similar brown painted pear-shaped vase in the British Museum is illustrated by M.Medley, Yuan Porcelain & Stoneware, London, 1973, pl.109a. Compare also with a related pear-shaped bottle vase with decorations of stylised birds in flight, 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.159-161, no.52. For a further example of similar decoration of birds in flight from the Jin Dynasty, but on a globular jar, see Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, pp.110-111, no.40.
Saleroom notices
The dating of this lot is consistent with Oxford Authentication Ltd thermoluminescence report no.P116d24, dated 23 March 2016.
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