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Although this form is very rare in Jun ware,
it was a popular form among other wares,
some of which would have been made at kilns
located not far from those producing Jun ware
in Yuxian. A vase of similar form to the current
vessel, but belonging to the Cizhou tradition and
decorated with incised petal design and sancai
type glazes is in the collection of the Idemitsu
Art Gallery, Tokyo (see Tsugio Mikami, Sekai toji
Zenshu 13 Liao Jin Yuan, Shogakukan, Tokyo,
p. 243, no. 278). This vase dates to the Jin-Yuan
period. The largest number of vases of this form
are those decorated in black slip over white in
the Cizhou tradition. One of the most famous
of these is the large example from the collection
of the Seattle Art Museum, illustrated op. cit.,
pp. 110-11, no. 92, which is dated by different
scholars to the Jin or Yuan dynasties. The central
portion of a vase very similar to the Seattle vessel
was excavated at Bacun, Yuxian, Henan province
( see Wenwu, no. 8, 1964, p. 32, pl. 5:1), which
suggests that the Seattle vessel was made in
the same area. The Seattle vase shares with the
current Jun vessel the same distinctive cone-
shaped foot with straight sides, and it can be no
coincidence that both vases were probably made
in the Yuxian area.

Several other black and white Cizhou type
vases of similar form, but with curved faring
foot, and less detailed decoration are known.
One of these was found at Bacun, Yuxian (see
Wenwu, no. 8, 1964, p. 32 and 33, fg. 12),
and it seems likely that other vases in the Royal
Ontario Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery,
the Shanghai Museum and a private Japanese
collection were also made in the Yuxian area.
A green-glazed vase of Cizhou type and similar
form is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art (see Y.
Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven
Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type
Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of
Art, 1980, pp. 216-7, pl. 96). An identical green-
glazed vase is also preserved in the Cleveland
Museum of Art, while an amber-glazed vessel
was excavated from a tomb at Zhaigoucun, near
Taiyuan, Shanxi province (see Kaogu, no. 1,
1965, p. 26, pl. 7:8).

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