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6. A PAINTED CIZHOU PO TTERY JAR
Northern Song Dynasty, 12th Century

the globular body with short cylindrical neck rising to a wide mouth with lipped rim, applied with
a pair of double-stranded loop handles joining the neck to the narrow sloping shoulder, decorated
with clusters of teardrop motifs suggesting leafy fronds painted in chocolate brown over a clear
glaze and white slip ground, ending in sweeping lines short of the thick ring foot, revealing the gray
stoneware body.

Height 5¾ inches (14.6 cm)

A Cizhou jar of similar form painted in brown with a closely related pattern in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, is illustrated by Mino and Tsiang, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-
chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, pp. 112-113, no. 44, where the authors attribute this group of Cizhou
ware decorated with teardrop motifs to the 12th century on the basis of their close relationship to ceramics excavated at
Julu xian, Hebei province, the well-known site which was inundated by the Yellow River floods in the second year of
Daguan, corresponding to 1108.
Compare also the similarly decorated Cizhou jar of closely related shape in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated by
Tseng and Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Vol. II, Boston, 1972, pl. 88, described as
possibly from Julu xian.

北宋 磁州白地褐花雙耳罐 高 14.6 厘米