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A PAINTED CIZHOU JAR

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The jar has a tapering, broad-shouldered body decorated in brownish-black on a cream slip with three
lobed panels, each containing fgures, all between wavy line borders at the shoulder, rim and foot, and all
under a clear glaze. The rim and the interior are covered with a brown glaze.
13æ in. (35 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$30,000-40,000

PROVENANCE

Mayuyama, Tokyo, prior to 1976.

LITERATURE

Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, 1976, p. 217, no. 658.
A similar jar in the Avery Brundage Collection is illustrated by M. Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware,
London, 1974, pl. 96 B.
元 磁州窯白地黑花開光人物紋罐

(another view)

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