B11 A very rare Cizhou “Cadogan” peach shaped wine pot, Song/Ming Dynasty

Description

Description:   Chinese very rare Cadogan Cizhou wine pot, Song style, shaped as a peach.

Dating: The dating of this wine pot is absolutely difficult because of lack of references (see References here below). It has a definite Song looking. Song wine pots of Cadogan type exist, as seen in the last pictures, but not of Cizhou type. We would date it to Song Dynasty, but with a prudently dating not later than Ming Dynasty.

Size:  10 cm high

Provenance:  Antiquarian market. The antiquarian bought this wine pot and the very rare Liao wine pot one (see E12 in the Early Pottery section) from a collector in Pescara.

References:  See in last pictures two oil spot Cadogan wine  pots of the Song / Jin period. One sold by Sotheby’s and the other one from the ex Shatzman Collection, now in the Ackland Art Museum. See also the only Cadogan Cizhou type wine pot found. It is from an internet site, reporting that it was auctioned by Bonhams Sidney on November 20^th, 2011. But it is not available on Bonham’s site. The description is strange: “17^th century style, possibly Song dynasty”, which make it a not sure reference.

Notes: “Cadogan” is the name given to this type of wine pots, that thanks to a particular structure are filled from the inside and are then lidless. See the last picture of the wine pot, where its inner structure is drawn in red. It is worth to note that some are calling these “Cadogan” vessels as “teapots”. This sounds strange because it is not possible to fill them with tea leaves, and even ess to remove them. So we stay with the wine pot name.