A GOOD PAINTED CIZHOU TRUNCATED MEIPING

SONG, YUAN AND MING CERAMICS

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A GOOD PAINTED CIZHOU TRUNCATED MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY

The well-potted, globular body vigorously painted in dark brown on a white slip with three large flower sprays, the leaves fanning out from a linear stem coiled at its tip and the petals of the blossoms detailed with implied shading created by short comed lines, with a single brown band encircling the base of the short neck below an everted rim, all under a clear glaze, with some slip and glaze irregularly applied to the rough base, glaze fritting on mouth rim--8½in. (21.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the truncated meiping of this type painted with similar peony sprays, but with the addition of hovering insects, in the Chang Foundation, illustrated by James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1990, no. 48. Others, also painted with peony sprays, but with leaves of a different shape, are in the Hakone Museum, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. l, Tokyo, 1976, no. 522 and 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, November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981, illustrated by Mino in the Catalogue, pl. 87, where meiping of this type and their dating is discussed; and in the National Museum, Tokyo, illustrated by Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, no. 87, p. 90, where the author states that the motifs and style of the decoration is found at Guantaizhen and Dong'aikoucun at Cizhou