A CIZHOU CARVED BROWN-GLAZED MEIPING

SONG DYNASTY WARES

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A CIZHOU CARVED BROWN-GLAZED MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY

The well-potted body freely carved in linear technique with a wide band of a lotus spray reserved on a striated ground, all between two line borders, with a pair of ribbed strap handles flanking the neck and reel-shaped mouth rim, the finely speckled glaze of dark olive-brown color ending in a slightly uneven line at the broad foot rim, interior of the base also glazed and the carved decoration burnt pale reddish color in the firing (one handle restored, small rim chips)
13¼in. (33.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

A related jar with boldly executed lotus sprays in a similar style in the Matsuoka Museum of Art is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, 1975, no. 112; and another is illustrated by W. P. Petts in the Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol. III, London, 1932, pl. LXVII, C422

Previously sold in our London rooms, December 12, 1988, lot 7