199 - A Chinese Cizhou white glazed tripod water potYuan Dynasty (1271-1368)covered with slip under a clear glaze suffused with crazing8cm wide x 4.8cm highProvenance:Collection of Wilfred Stuart Delano Barnes (1934-2024) and by family descent,collection no. 140Stuart worked for Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong from 1962, serving for manyyears as Group Financial Controller and ultimately as Financial Director.The present lot features an inverted rim, a globular body, and is supported by three small feet. The body is thinly potted and applied overall with a white glaze, which shows a subtle, faint greenish tinge where it pools. This type of thinly potted, plain white ceramic with a faint greenish-grey hue may well represent the very type of Cizhou ware described in Wang Zuo's expanded edition of the Xinzeng Gegu Yaolun ('The Essential Criteria of Antiquities'), which notes that 'the plain ones [from Cizhou] are fetched at higher prices than Ding ware.'Renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship, often praised as 'white as jade and thin as paper,' the Ding kilns achieved great acclaim during the Song and Jin dynasties, inspiring numerous kilns across northern China to emulate their style. By the Yuan dynasty, although the central production area of Ding ware was in decline, its classic white porcelain manufacturing techniques and aesthetic ideals were absorbed and perpetuated by prominent neighboring kilns, such as those of Cizhou. Compare a very similar white-glazed tripod water pot in imitation of Ding ware currently in the Palace Museum, Beijing (museum accession no. Gu 00145904).元 磁州窯仿定白釉小水呈本品水丞斂口、鼓腹，下承以三支小足，造型小巧雅致，線條圓潤流暢，置於案頭頗具文人意趣。其胎體輕薄，通體內外施白釉，積釉處輕微泛青。這種微泛青灰的薄胎素面白瓷可能便是王佐增補的《新增格古要論》中載的磁州「素者價高於定」者。定窯以其「白如玉、薄如紙」的精湛工藝在宋金時期名揚天下，並引發了北方諸多窯場的爭相效仿。至元代，儘管定窯中心產區逐漸式微，但其經典的白瓷燒造工藝與美學範式已被磁州窯等周邊著名窯場吸收並延續。參見北京故宮博物院現藏一件極其類似的「元 磁州窯仿定窯白釉水丞」（故00145904）。拍品來源：威爾弗雷德·斯圖爾特·德拉諾·巴恩斯 (Wilfred Stuart Delano Barnes, 1934–2024) 舊藏，後由家族遞藏，收藏編號no. 140。斯圖爾特自1962年起於香港怡和洋行任職，多年來擔任集團財務總監，並最終升任財務董事。

A Chinese Cizhou white glazed tripod water potYuan Dynasty (1271-1368)covered with slip under a clear glaze suffused with crazing8cm wide x 4.8cm highProvenance:Collection of Wilfred Stuart Delano Barnes (1934-2024) and by family descent,collection no. 140Stuart worked for Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong from 1962, serving for manyyears as Group Financial Controller and ultimately as Financial Director.The present lot features an inverted rim, a globular body, and is supported by three small feet. The body is thinly potted and applied overall with a white glaze, which shows a subtle, faint greenish tinge where it pools. This type of thinly potted, plain white ceramic with a faint greenish-grey hue may well represent the very type of Cizhou ware described in Wang Zuo's expanded edition of the Xinzeng Gegu Yaolun ('The Essential Criteria of Antiquities'), which notes that 'the plain ones [from Cizhou] are fetched at higher prices than Ding ware.'Renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship, often praised as 'white as jade and thin as paper,' the Ding kilns achieved great acclaim during the Song and Jin dynasties, inspiring numerous kilns across northern China to emulate their style. By the Yuan dynasty, although the central production area of Ding ware was in decline, its classic white porcelain manufacturing techniques and aesthetic ideals were absorbed and perpetuated by prominent neighboring kilns, such as those of Cizhou. Compare a very similar white-glazed tripod water pot in imitation of Ding ware currently in the Palace Museum, Beijing (museum accession no. Gu 00145904).元 磁州窯仿定白釉小水呈本品水丞斂口、鼓腹，下承以三支小足，造型小巧雅致，線條圓潤流暢，置於案頭頗具文人意趣。其胎體輕薄，通體內外施白釉，積釉處輕微泛青。這種微泛青灰的薄胎素面白瓷可能便是王佐增補的《新增格古要論》中載的磁州「素者價高於定」者。定窯以其「白如玉、薄如紙」的精湛工藝在宋金時期名揚天下，並引發了北方諸多窯場的爭相效仿。至元代，儘管定窯中心產區逐漸式微，但其經典的白瓷燒造工藝與美學範式已被磁州窯等周邊著名窯場吸收並延續。參見北京故宮博物院現藏一件極其類似的「元 磁州窯仿定窯白釉水丞」（故00145904）。拍品來源：威爾弗雷德·斯圖爾特·德拉諾·巴恩斯 (Wilfred Stuart Delano Barnes, 1934–2024) 舊藏，後由家族遞藏，收藏編號no. 140。斯圖爾特自1962年起於香港怡和洋行任職，多年來擔任集團財務總監，並最終升任財務董事。 Condition Report: minor wear to the surface and the rim with one area of firing blemish