A RARE CIZHOU TALL OVIFORM VASE, MEIPING

SONG DYNASTY

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A RARE CIZHOU TALL OVIFORM VASE, MEIPING
song dynasty
Carved through the creamy slip to the brown body below in three bands around the body, with a leafy chrysanthemum scroll at the shoulder, above a trellis pattern on a cell ground, and stylised lappets above the foot
11 in. (29.3 cm.) high, fitted box

Lot Essay

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test, no.P198n95, is consistent with the dating of this lot.

Compare the slightly larger Cizhou meiping with a similar trellis-pattern band to the present lot from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Catalogue, vol.II, no.91, also illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, 1980, vol.10, no.124.

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