拍賣筆記 vol.281 蘇富比香港：82.5萬港元售出，北宋磁州白釉盤口尊，岡田美術館 - A Okada Museum Cizhou white-glazed vase, Northern Song dynasty Sold for 825,000 HKD

拍賣行在撰寫圖錄時援引了2018年臨宇山人（富田昌孝，日本「計程車大王」）所藏的同類器物作為參照。然而在2018年前後，此類磁州窯作品在國際市場上極難以當前水準成交。其核心原因在於買家結構於彼時已由歐美、日本逐步轉向中國，而中國藏家對磁州窯的重要性尚未形成共識。直至今年，隨著中國本土學術與市場對磁州系統的重新評估，認知度才真正提升；尤其鉅鹿縣相關品類迅速走熱，帶動整個磁州窯體系被重新理解與定價。在此背景下，過去較少受到關注的磁州窯白無地（無裝飾）器物，也因此悄然進入主流藏家視野，呈現出穩步升溫的趨勢。

In preparing the catalogue entry, the auction house referenced a comparable piece from the Linyushanren (Masataka Tomita, the so-called “Taxi King of Japan”) collection sold in 2018. Yet, at that time, works of this type from the Cizhou kilns would have struggled to achieve prices at the level we are seeing today. The key reason lies in the shifting buyer demographic: by 2018, the market had already moved from a predominantly Western and Japanese base to one increasingly driven by Chinese collectors—though the latter had not yet fully recognised the significance of Cizhou ware.

It is only this year that Chinese collectors’ awareness of Cizhou’s art-historical importance has meaningfully risen. The rapid surge of interest in wares associated with Julu County has further catalysed a broader re-evaluation of the Cizhou system as a whole. Within this new context, previously underappreciated categories—such as the unadorned white-bodied Cizhou vessels—have quietly come into favour, showing a clear upward trajectory in market reception.

北宋

磁州白釉盤口尊

A Cizhou white-glazed vase, Northern Song dynasty

Auction Closed

2025 November 22, 06:38 PM HKT

Estimate

200,000 - 400,000 HKD

Lot Sold

825,500 HKD

整體品相良好。見些許小剝釉，主要於口沿及邊沿處。 正常窰燒微瑕。

参考兩件頗為相似之例，一件售於紐約蘇富比，2018年9月11日，編號712， 另一件為戶栗美術館舊藏，2004年6月9日售於倫敦蘇富比，編號56， 後入臨宇山人收藏，旋售於紐約佳士得，2018年3月22日，編號512。

Description

well potted with an ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to a broad shoulder supporting a tall flaring neck, covered with a white glaze stopping neatly around the foot, Japanese wood box

30.5 cm

Condition Report

Good overall condition, with just some glaze flakes mainly to the rims. Minor firing imperfections. 

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Catalogue Note

Compare two highly related vases, one sold in our New York room, 11th September 2019, lot 712 and another formerly in the Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 56 and again, as part of the Linyushanren Collection at Christie's New York, 22nd March 2018, lot 512.