NORTHERN BLACK-GLAZED YUHUCHUN VASE JIN DYNASTY 金 北方窯系黑釉玉壺春瓶 the elegant pear-shaped body resting on a short straight foot raising to a slender neck gently everting to a trumpet mouth, covered all over with a lustrous black glaze suffused with minute brown spots and russet features on the mouth rim and above foot (28.3cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance: Private Scottish collection, North Berwick, has been collecting Asian ceramics for 25 years. Acquired from Sotheby's London, The Muwen Tang Collection of Chinese Song Ceramics sale, 12 November 2003, lot 20. With an original receipt. Exhibited: Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994. Catalogue no. 159. Note: Compare to a similar black-glazed bottle vase, from the collection of Hirota Matsushige, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, no. 70. Another comparable example is from the collection of Mrs Alfred Clark, exhibited in Song Dynasty Wares: Chun and Brown Glazes, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1952, catalogue no. 89, subsequently sold at Sotheby's, 25 March 1975, lot 19.