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A LARGE WELL-PAINTED CIZHOU MEIPING
JIN DYNASTY, LATE 12TH-EARLY 13TH CENTURY
The elongated body is fluidly painted in brown on a white
slip and under a clear glaze with a broad band of peonies
around the shoulder and lotus and butterflies, around the
body between a band of upright petals above the foot and
further leafy foliate decoration on the shoulder.
14¬ in. (37 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$12,000-18,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan.
Kochukyo, Tokyo, June 2012.
EXHIBITED:
New York, Kaikodo, 2013.
LITERATURE:
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2013, no. 52.
This boldly painted meiping is particularly rare in that it is
decorated with two different types of blossoms—peony
and lotus, while other meiping are more commonly
decorated with one type of blossom or a thick band of
leafy fronds. Another meiping with two different bands
of decoration, but with the primary band executed in
sgraffiato, is illustrated by Yutaka Mino and Katherine
R. Tsiang, in Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven
Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-
1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, fig. 188, p. 168.

金 磁州窯白地黑花梅瓶
來源:
私人珍藏, 日本。
壺中居, 東京, 2012年6月。
展覽:
紐約, 懷古堂, 2013年。
出版:
《懷古堂》, 紐約, 2013年春季刊, 52號。