Lot 90
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A ZHEJIANG CELADON MEIPING AND COVER

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A ZHEJIANG CELADON MEIPING AND COVER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

The heavily potted body of high-shouldered, tapering form encircled by narrow, concentric grooves below a plain, short neck, covered with a thin glaze of blue-green tone ending just above the flat base burnt orange in the firing, the plain cover with flat top and gently flaring sides, rim chip, restored chips, hair cracks--8in. (20.3cm.) high, wood stand

Lot Essay

A meiping of similar size, with ribbed cover, was included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics of the Sung, Currier Gallery of Art, 1959, no. 3. Another of larger size (8 3/4 in.) in the Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford is illustrated by Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1958, pl. 78. Compare, also the meiping in the Alfred Clark Collection included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, no. 182