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A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON
VASE, MEIPING

JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

The body is carved with a wide band of leafy
peony scroll, beneath a narrow band of leaf scroll
and overlapping lappets on the shoulder and
above the foot. The glaze is a pale olive-green
color suffused with a fne crackle.
14¿ in. (35.8 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accessioned in 1926.
A related Yaozhou celadon meiping found at
Longqiaogou, Fuping county, also dated to the
Jin dynasty and currently in the Shaanxi History
Museum, is illustrated in Complete Collection of
Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 15, Shaanxi,
Beijing, 2008, p. 194, no. 194.
金 耀州窯刻蓮紋梅瓶
來源
Samuel T. Peters 夫人（1859-1943）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1926年。

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