Jin Dynasty|The globular body supported on a short foot elegantly tapered to a slender waisted neck and flaring rim, the exterior covered with a lustrous and attractive dark brown glaze, carved with a wide register of scrolling meander issuing large acanthus leaves, below another similar floral band against the unglazed buff-colour biscuit, fitted box. 27.5cm (10 7/8in) high (2).|金 磁州窯黑釉剔纏枝花卉紋玉壺春瓶Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong circa 1980s-1990s來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港Compare a similar Cizhou carved pear-shaped vase, Yuhuchunping, Jin/Yuan dynasty, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.523. Another related Cizhou carved pear-shaped vase, 13th-14th century, in the Saint Louis Art Museum, is illustrated by R.Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard, 1996, pp.189-191, no.68.A similar Cizhou carved bottle vase, Yuhuchunping, Jin dynasty, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot 3284.The result of C-Link Research & Development Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.6380AM20 dated 17 December 2012, is consistent with the dating of this lot.