A SMALL JIZHOU PAINTED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

Details

A SMALL JIZHOU PAINTED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
Resist-decorated with a carved blossoming prunus branch detailed in brown, all under a clear glaze reserved against the dark brown ground that shades to russet brown above the foot
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high

Provenance

Ruth Dreyfus Collection, 1970.

Exhibited

A Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramic Art, Qantas Gallery, London, April 1966.
3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987.

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Lot Essay

For a similar vase of more squat shape from the Scheinman Collection, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, no. 102, where the author discusses the method of decoration on wares of this type, pp. 251-2.

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