A RUSSET DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID BOTTLE, XIAOKOU PING
A RUSSET DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID BOTTLE, XIAOKOU PING
A RUSSET DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID BOTTLE, XIAOKOU PING
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A RUSSET DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID BOTTLE, XIAOKOU PING

JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

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A RUSSET DECORATED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID BOTTLE, XIAOKOU PING
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
The tapering ovoid bottle is surmounted by a small double-ribbed neck, and covered with a lustrous black glaze. The shoulder is painted in russet-brown with two long-tailed birds in flight.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, 4 December 1984, lot 241.
Mayuyama, Tokyo, November 2011.
Literature
Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2012, no. 57.
Exhibited
New York, Kaikodo, 2012.

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Ovoid jars of this type, with these distinctive small, double-ringed lips, are termed xiaokou ping (small-mouthed bottles) and were probably sealed with a fabric-wrapped wooden dowl and used for storing wine and other liquids. Typically dark-glazed, such bottles are often painted in russet or rust-brown slip with abstract floral decoration or designs suggestive of birds in flight, such as those seen on the present example, characteristically rendered with vigorous, calligraphic strokes.

A bottle from the collection of Robert M. Ferris IV with similarly-painted birds in flight rendered in russet against a black glaze is illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, p. 162, no. 53. Another black-glazed example painted with birds in russet is illustrated R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 255, no. 465.
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