A BROWN-PAINTED BLACK-GLAZED YUHUCHUNPING

YUAN DYNASTY

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A BROWN-PAINTED BLACK-GLAZED YUHUCHUNPING
Yuan Dynasty
The sides painted in quick brushstrokes with two birds in flight, the metallic brown of their bodies reserved against the lustrous black ground thinning to mottled brown on the edges of the mouth rim and edges of the short pedestal foot
11.3/8in. (28.9cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

A related example dated to the Jin dynasty (late 12th-first half 13th century) was included by Robert Mowry in the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 23 December 1995 - 10 March 1994, Catalogue, no. 52, where the author suggests that this pear-shaped form occurs in Cizhou-type ware in the mid-twelfth century. He also distinguishes between the Jin-period bottles which have smaller bodies and longer necks and the Yuan ones which have larger, fuller bodies and shorter necks.