A HENAN PAINTED BLACK-GLAZED VASE

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A HENAN PAINTED BLACK-GLAZED VASE
SONG/JIN DYNASTY

The well-potted, pear-shaped body freely painted with leafy sprays reserved in iron-rust against a black-brown glaze attractively mottled with greeny-brown continuing over the lipped rim and stopping at the edge of the slightly flared foot rim to expose the granular buff ware
10in. (25.5cm.) high
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Other boldly painted vases of this type are illustrated by Medley, The Chinese Potter, New York, 1976, fig. 100; in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, nos. 592 and 593; by Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, pl. 27; and another in The British Museum, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 71