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A FINE HENAN BLACK-GLAZED RUSSET-PAINTED
BOTTLE VASE
Jin dynasty
The elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short flared foot to a A similar bottle vase in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard
trumpet neck with rolled rim, the surfaces covered with a lustrous University, is illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell,
brown-black glaze neatly wiped from the foot pad, the body freely and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics,
painted with stylized foliage. 400-1400, Cambridge, 1995, no. 52, where the author notes on p.
11 1/2in (29.3cm) high 160 that bottles with painted decoration, without context and without
painted borders relate closely to stylized floral designs on standard
$6,000 - 9,000 Cizhou bottles produced from the late 12th or early 13th century, and
therefore must date to the Jin period.
金 黑釉鐵銹彩花卉紋瓶
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