A CIZHOU PAINTED MEIPING

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A CIZHOU PAINTED MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY

The elongated body and high shoulder each painted with three leafy, scrolling stems bearing multi-petaled blossoms, set between double line borders, all painted in brown on a cream ground and covered in a clear glaze suffused with fine crackle continuing over the tapering mouth rim and falling short of the foot to expose the fine-grained body
15in. (38.1cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare the meiping of slightly smaller size, but with similar flowering branches and sketchy style of painting, illustrated in The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Chinese Bronze and Ceramics, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1965, p. 72