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A CARVED LARGE CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING Song Dynasty image 1
A CARVED LARGE CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING Song Dynasty image 2
A CARVED LARGE CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING Song Dynasty image 3
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PROPERTY OF THE COLLECTION OF DR. AND MRS. RICHARD DICKES
Lot 100

A CARVED LARGE CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING
Song Dynasty

Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including the Francine and Bernard Wald Collection of Fine Snuff Bottles, Part I
17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A CARVED LARGE CIZHOU SGRAFIATTO VASE, MEIPING

Song Dynasty
The tall cylindrical body surmounted by a short, constricted neck and conical mouth, covered overall with creamy white slip under a clear glaze, decorated with stylized leafy scrolls and branches over a ring-punched ground, the inset foot unglazed showing light gray stoneware body.
16in (40.6cm) high

Footnotes

宋 磁州白釉唐草魚子地劃花梅瓶

Provenance:
Flores & Iva, New York, 19 February 2001

來源：
紐約 Flores & Iva 古董行，2001 年 2 月 19 日

Compare the carved Cizhou meiping in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 91, fig. 85. A carved Cizhou meiping of this type was sold at Christie's New York, 23 September 2022, lot 901.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., no. P104a82, dated 27 January 2004.

---bio below---

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Dickes have been enthusiastic collectors and patrons of Asian art for over 50 years. The couple met in Brooklyn in 1964 and immediately recognized their shared interests in East Asian culture, lifelong learning, and serving their community.

Dr. Richard Dickes (1942-2023) was a graduate of Columbia College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He was a clinical psychiatrist who served in that capacity for the U.S. Navy, and then practiced in Morristown, NJ for 45 years, including roles at the Morristown Medical Center as the Interim Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and on the Credentials Committee. Dr. Dickes was recognized for his extraordinary level of care to patients and their families, and for his dedication to teaching colleagues and future generations of practitioners. Ruth Dickes attended Cornell University and Brooklyn College before earning a Master of Science in Social Work at Columbia University. She was actively engaged in her community through volunteer work at local schools and the Morristown Medical Center. She served on the Collections Committee at the Brooklyn Museum for many years. From 2008 to 2020 she also worked at her husband's medical practice.

In their free time, Ruth and Richard pursued their passion for Asian art by traveling to Asia, frequenting museums, visiting galleries, attending lectures, and reading voraciously on the subject. They were involved in patron groups at numerous cultural institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, China Institute, Asia House, American Friends of the Shanghai Museum, and later, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Through these associations they built lifelong friendships with curators, museum directors, dealers, and collectors. The Dickes eventually donated parts of their collection to the Brooklyn Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, and LACMA.

The couple embarked on their collecting journey in the 1970s, encouraged by Richard's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dickes (1912-2009 and 1912-2010, respectively), who themselves collected Asian art, with an emphasis on religious art, Japanese ceramics, and East Asian ink painting. Ruth and Richard started their collection with Japanese ceramics and paintings, and ultimately expanded the scope to include Chinese, Korean and Indian works of art and paintings. They principally acquired pieces from dealers in New York City, including Fernando Flores, Frederick and Joan Baekeland, James Lally, and Joan Mirviss. At its height, the Dickes Collection encompassed hundreds of artworks spanning from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. While the couple maintained a deep appreciation of artistic traditions from across Asia, Chinese paintings, Tang dynasty tomb pottery, and Song dynasty ceramics held special significance for them.

Bonhams is pleased to present a selection of exquisite Chinese works of art from the Dickes Collection which reflect the quality, taste, and discernment that informed the couple's vision.

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