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Lot Essay
For a similar, but larger (20.2cm.) resist-glazed vase, from the Scheinman Collection, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, no. 102, where the author discusses the method of decoration on wares of this type, pp. 251-2. A shard from a similar bottle vase with similar resist decoration found in Jizhou, Jianxi province, in 1955 is illustrated by P. Hughes-Stanton and R. Kerr, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, London, 1980, no. 277, pp. 38, 54 and 143, no. 277.
A larger brown-painted vase of high-shouldered form painted with a bird similar to that on the second vase is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 519. A slightly larger pear-shaped vase with very similar bird and flower design was excavated in Jiangxi province in 1979, and is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinhua Daquan - Taoci juan, Taipei, 1993, p. 291, no. 409.
A larger brown-painted vase of high-shouldered form painted with a bird similar to that on the second vase is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 519. A slightly larger pear-shaped vase with very similar bird and flower design was excavated in Jiangxi province in 1979, and is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinhua Daquan - Taoci juan, Taipei, 1993, p. 291, no. 409.