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48. A Russet-Splashed Brown-Glazed Bottle-Vase ( Y u h u c h u n P i n g )
Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115–1234)

of Cizhou type, the pear-shaped vessel with tall tapering neck and trumpet mouth covered inside
and out with a dark purplish-brown glaze decorated with three rows of large brushed-on splashes
of russet-brown, and with smaller touches of russet-brown around the inside of the mouth rim,
the rounded base raised on a wide ring foot, the underside unglazed revealing the gray stoneware.
Height 11 ⁄4 inches (28.5 cm)
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A similar vase is published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, no. 618,
p. 154; and another similar example in the collection of the Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe is illustrated in the catalogue of
the special exhibition at the Osaka Municipal Museum entitled Sō Gen no bijutsu (The Arts of the Song and Yuan), Tokyo,
1980, fig. 184.
金 褐釉醬斑玉壺春瓶 高 28.5 厘米