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A LARGE IRON-BROWN-SLIP-PAINTED NORTHERN BLACK A SQUAT CIZHOU BLACK STONEWARE VASE, MEIPING
WARE OVIFORM JAR 13/15th Century
Jin to Yuan Dynasty, 12th/13th Century The globular meiping with rounded shoulders and wide body, painted
Of Cizhou type, the tall slender oviform jar with simple lug handles at in iron-brown in a continuous scene with a bird amidst bamboo
the waisted and molded neck, the shoulder and upper body loosely sprays, all below leaf lappets on the shoulder and a cylindrical neck
painted in iron-brown in broad strokes with leafy foliage over a glossy with everted rim, the high-fired stoneware base unglazed.
black glaze, the recessed base glazed at its center. 7 3/4in (19.6cm) high
12in (30.5cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000
$2,000 - 4,000
十三/十五世紀 磁州窯竹鳥紋梅瓶
金至元 十二/十三世紀 黑釉鐵銹花雙系罐
For two 13th century vases both black-glazed and with iron-oxide
Similar jars without handles are illustrated by Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s painted decoration with birds, one a meiping, the other a yuchunping,
Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Patridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black see Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partrudge
Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museum, 1995, Feathers, Chinese Brown and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400,
pp.161-166, nos. 53, 55 and 56 Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp. 159-163, no’s 52 and 53.

For a smaller example see Sotheby’s London, 11 May 2016, lot 27
and another sold at Christie’s, New York, The Robert Hatfield Ellsworth
Collection, 17 March 2015, lot 19

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