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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR It is extremely rare to fnd a black-glazed vase of this type with
russet markings suggestive of fower heads. Compare the black-
1315 glazed meiping of more slender proportions decorated with russet
A RARE RUSSET-DECORATED BLACKISH-BROWN- forets composed of fve dots illustrated in Porcelains from the
GLAZED JAR Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 43.
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The jar has a high-shouldered tapering body, short neck and 北宋 磁州窯黑釉鐵銹斑梅瓶
everted mouth with raised outer rim, and is covered with a
mottled blackish-brown glaze that ends in a line above the foot
and is decorated in russet with small fower-like markings.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high
$30,000-50,000
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