A CIZHOU TURQUOISE-GLAZED MEIPING

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A CIZHOU TURQUOISE-GLAZED MEIPING
MING DYNASTY

The heavily potted vessel freely painted with a white slip, with a wide central band of flowering lotus and chrysanthemum, bordered by a loosely drawn floral border at the base and a zigzag and flowerhead band on the high shoulder, below a petal collar encircling the short neck, all under a finely crackled turquoise glaze stopping short of the unglazed foot exposing the pinkish-buff body and white slip, some glaze retouching and flaking--9 3/8in. (23.7cm.) high

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Compare the turquoise-glazed painted cizhou meiping of this type in the Fogg Art Museum included in the exhibition, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981, illustrated by Mino in the Catalogue, pl. 99