A Cizhou-type painted and sgraffiato inscribed vase, meiping, Jin dynasty | 金　磁州窰系白地褐彩「風花雪月」梅瓶

Collection of Mr Nishimura, Japan, 1920s.

The Concordia House Collection.

Sotheby's New York, 19th March 2007, lot 126.

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Chinese Ceramics in Chicago Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1982, cat. no. 21, p. 37.

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. 48 (unillustrated).

Towakai soshitenkan zufu, Tokyo, 1929, pl. 21.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 2, Tokyo, 2018, no. 6.

來源

西村總太郎收藏，日本，1920年代

The Concordia House 收藏

紐約蘇富比2007年3月19日，編號126

壺中居，東京

展覽

《Chinese Ceramics in Chicago Collections》，瑪麗和利布洛克藝術博物館，西北大學，伊利諾州埃文斯頓，1982年，編號21，頁37

《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48（沒載圖）

出版

《陶話會宋瓷展觀圖譜》，東京，1929年，圖版21

小林忠編，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷2，東京，2018年，編號6

See a similar vase from the Ataka Collection in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, acc. no. 680. Another, inscribed with different four-character characters likely reading honghua man yuan (“red flowers fill the courtyard”), is in the Art Institute of Chicago, acc. no. 1945.302. Also compare two examples from the Warren E. Cox Collection, illustrated in Warren E. Cox, Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1970, p. 200; and another in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, no. 538. Cizhou meiping of this type also bear inscriptions such as “spring, summer, autumn, winter” (春夏秋冬) and “fresh fragrance of superb sake” (清香美酒), suggesting that the vase was very likely used as a wine bottle.