A rare Cizhou-type black-glazed ribbed ewer and cover, Northern Song - Jin dynasty | 北宋至金　磁州窰系黑釉堆線帶蓋注壺

A Japanese private collection.

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

5th Anniversary Exhibition. All-Stars of the Okada Collection: Masterworks of Korin, Jakuchu, Hokusai and the Ru Ware Kilns, Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2018-19, exh. no. 47 (unillustrated).

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 1, Tokyo, 2013, no. 9.

The present ewer and cover belong to a rare group of black-glazed stoneware vessels with ribbed designs that have been produced in several kilns across northern China, including those in Henan, Hebei, and Shandong province, especially in Zibo, during the Song and Jin dynasties. Two closely related ewers were excavated from the kiln site at Qingliangsi, Baofeng, Henan province, illustrated in Baofeng Qingliangsi yao [Kiln at Qingliangsi in Baofeng], vol.2, Beijing, 2020, pl.260-1 and 260-2. Compare also a related example with flat base and set with foliated upright flanges at the shoulder, Song dynasty, is in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, accession no. Deoksu875. See also two black-glazed ribbed ewers of compressed globular form, Jin dynasty, see Xuan se zhi mei: Zhongguo lidai hei you ciqi zhenpin [Masterpieces of Chinese Black-Glazed Ceramics Through the Ages], Shenzhen, 2012, nos. 124 and 125.

For examples in private collections, see a related ewer from the Meiyintang collection, Norther Song or Jin Dynasty, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, pl. 449; another from the Muwen Tang collection, dated Jin dynasty, illustrated in The Muwen Tang Collection Series, vol. 11: Song Ceramics, Hong Kong, 2012, no. 189. Compare also a similar ewer, Jin dynasty from the ATAKA Collection, exhibited and illustrated in Special Exhibition: Tenmoku: The Beauty of Chinese Black-Glazed Ware Osaka, 2020, no. 7

來源

日本私人收藏

壺中居，東京

展覽

《開館5周年記念展―美のスターたち―光琳．若冲．北斎．汝窯など名品勢ぞろい》， 岡田美術館，箱根，2018-19年，展覽編號47（沒載圖）

出版

小林忠編，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷1，東京，2013年，編號9

黑釉出筋器於宋金時期在河南、河北與山東淄博等地窰址皆有燒造，如河南寶豐清涼寺窰址曾出土兩件同類執壺，見《寶豐清涼寺窯》，下冊，北京，2020年，圖版260-1、260-2。韓國國立中央博物館亦藏一件類似宋代黑釉執壺，館藏編號Deoksu875。另見深圳博物館兩件金代扁腹例子，著錄於《玄色之美：中國歷代黑釉瓷器珍品》，深圳，2012年，編號124、125。

私人收藏中亦有相關例子，如茵堂藏一北宋或金代例，著錄於《玫茵堂藏中國陶瓷》，卷1，倫敦，1994年，圖版449；沐文堂藏另一金代例，《沐文堂收藏全集》，卷11：宋代陶瓷，香港，2012年，編號189。另見日本安宅舊藏一件金代執壺曾展於大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館特展並著錄，見《天目：中國黑釉之美》，大阪，2020年，編號7。