Lot 255
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A RARE CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED PAINTED BALUSTER VASE
A RARE CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED PAINTED BALUSTER VASE

JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

Details
A RARE CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED PAINTED BALUSTER VASE
Jin Dynasty, 12th Century
The tapering body and tall neck well painted in black over a white slip with two large leafy peony sprays with incised details and covered with a thin finely mottled pale green glaze continuing over the lipped mouth rim and pooling to a darker green on the flared pedestal foot
9in. (24.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

This painted and incised peony motif is found most commonly on these green-glazed zun-shaped vessels. Similar examples are in the Fogg Art Museum, illustrated by Y. Mino in the Catalogue of the exhibition, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China, Cleveland Museum of Art, 5 August - 6 September 1981, pp. 214-215, pl. 95; in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Catalogue, Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 141, fig. 565; and in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers in the Catalogue, Geneva, 1968, vol. 1, no. A78.