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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 15, 2016 | Christie's | New York | The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: The Linyushanren Collection, Part II | 709 | $****** - ****** | AN EXTREMELY RARE PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED JIZHOU BOTTLE VASE |
sculpture
21 cm (8.25 in)
Ceramic
Sen Sotan (1578-1658) Collection.
The Konoike Family Collection.
Konoike Zenemon Yukimasa, the 12th (1883-1954).
The Ataka Family Collection.
The Nezu Museum, Tokyo (by repute).
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Chinese Ceramics, One Hundred Masterpieces, Tokyo, 1960.
Mitsukoshi Department Store, Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten (Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from the Ataka Collection), Tokyo, September 1975.
Asahi Shimbun, Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 6 March to 13 April 1999; Osaka, 25 April to 13 June 1999; Hagi, 20 June to 15 August 1999.
Senke Chuko Meibutsuki, an inventory of tea ceremony goods selected by Sen Sotan (1578- 1658), grandson of the great tea master, Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), written circa mid-18th century.
Koyama Fujio, Chugoku meito hayakusen (Chinese ceramics: one hundred selected masterpieces from collections in Japan, England, France, and America), Tokyo, 1960, p. 79.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Ataka korekushon: chugoku toji meihin ten (Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from Ataka Collection), Tokyo, 1975, no. 57.
Koyama Fujio, Toji taikei (Compendium of Ceramics), vol. 38: Tenmoku, Tokyo, 1974, pl. 122.
Heibonsha, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 6: Temmoku, Tokyo, 1999, no. 55.
Asahi Shimbun, Song Ceramics, Tokyo, 1999, p. 119, no. 81.
Christie’s, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics, An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 110-1, no. 42.
Rosemary Scott, ‘Chinese Classic Wares from a Japanese Collection: Song Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2014, pp. 97-108, fig. 14.
The vase is elegantly potted with a bulbous lower body supported on a short cylindrical foot and tapers to a long neck with an everted rim. The sides are finely decorated in resist technique with paper-cut decoration of two delicate phoenixes in flight<br/> reserved in brown against the finely variegated ground of buff<br/> caramel and dark brown tones simulating tortoise shell<br/> which stops neatly at the foot revealing the orange-brown ware on the base.<br/> Japanese wood double box<br/>Registered in Japan as an Important Art Object on 9 April 1941; deregistered on 4 September 2015.<br/>with a Japanese wood double box
