A PAINTED CIZHOU YUHUCHUNPING

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A PAINTED CIZHOU YUHUCHUNPING
JIN DYNASTY

Of spreading pear shape with tall neck rising to a flared mouth and lipped rim, the sides freely painted in brown with two registers of foliate sprays within double-line borders, all on a white slip under a clear glaze falling short of the slightly flared, knife-cut foot exposing the fine, granular ware, some glaze flaking on rim--10 5/8in. (27cm.) high

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 71

Lot Essay

Compare two similar bottles in the Sackler Collection included in the exhibition, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1981, and illustrated by Mino in the Catalogue, figs. 201 and 202 , as well as a fragmentary bottle, excavated in Taiyuian, Shanxi province, fig. 203