SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

This particularly elegant form of a truncated meiping, enhanced by its monochromatic glaze, is a fine example of plain white Cizhou-type wares. Simply decorated with a white slip under a transparent colorless glaze, the resulting effect is a satiny sheen of creamy white. A similar plain white truncated meiping is illustrated in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, no. 699; and another with a more rounded mouth rim, from The Frederck M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art, was sold at Christie's London, 24-25 June 1974, lot 28. A taller, more elongated example, is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1972, no. A22.