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32. A L a r g e R u s t - B r o w n P a i n t e d B l a c k - G l a z e d S t o n e w a r e J a r

Jin-Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century

of well potted tall ovoid form with wide mouth and short narrow neck, boldly decorated with two
large peony blossoms on leafy stems spreading upwards and around the shoulders, and with freely
drawn foliage on the reverse, all in rich iron-brown over the lustrous black glaze, the neck and base
unglazed, the exposed body fired to pale tan-brown.

Height 141⁄2 inches (36.7 cm)

From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak, Hong Kong

Exhibited: Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the collection of the Kau Chi Society of
Chinese Art in association with the Art Gallery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
19th December, 1981 to 18th February, 1982

Published: Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1982, p. 39

Black Porcelain from the Mr. and Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Guangzhou, 1997,
no. 58, p. 120

A similarly decorated large ovoid jar, of meiping form with short narrow neck, in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated in The
Freer Gallery of Art, Vol. I, China, Washington D.C., 1971, col. pl. 95, with description on p. 175. Another example of meiping
form in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection: Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1952,
p. 78, no. 310, and is illustrated by Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, col. pl. H, opposite p. 132. The similarly
decorated large ovoid meiping-form jar in the collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth is illustrated by Mowry in Hare’s Fur,
Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400–1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 166–167,
no. 56, where the author provides a detailed description of the technique and the derivation of the decoration.

金/元 黑釉醬彩大罐 高 36.7 厘米