A RARE SMALL JIZHOU PAINTED STONEWARE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
A RARE SMALL JIZHOU PAINTED STONEWARE PEAR-SHAPED VASE

SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

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A RARE SMALL JIZHOU PAINTED STONEWARE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The vase is painted in brown on a white slip with a design of waves, and on the neck with bands of key fret and foliate scroll below a rolled mouth rim, all under a clear glaze.
3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Blitz Antiek en Kunsthandel, Amsterdam.

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Lot Essay

A vase with similar wave design was sold at Christie's New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 1972. Another vase of miniature form with wave design throughout is located in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum and illustrated by J. C. Watt in The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, New York, 2010, p. 277, fig. 307.

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