A Cizhou Painted Ovoid Jar

YUAN DYNASTY

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A Cizhou Painted Ovoid Jar
Yuan Dynasty
Freely painted in dark brown on a white slip with two lozenge-shaped panels, one of a dragon leaping amidst clouds, the other an ascending phoenix, separated by flower sprays below a foliate scroll border, all under a clear glaze
11in. (29.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the jar similar in both size and decoration from the Cleveland Museum of Art included in the exhibition, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 17 November - 18 January 1981, and illustrated in the catalogue, pp. 210-211, pl. 93, where several similar jars are also illustrated, figs. 268, 269 and 271.

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