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Lot Essay
The robust shape of this meiping is one of the more pleasing forms found in wares of the Song period. The fluid and graceful painting of the peony sprays compliments the form and makes it one of the more desirable types of this group.
Compare the truncated meiping of this type, but with the addition of hovering insects, in the Chang Foundation, illustrated by J. Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1990, no. 48. Others, also painted with peony sprays and with leaves of varying form are in the Hakone Museum, Japan, 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, 17 November 1980-18 January 1981, illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsang, pl. 87, where meiping of this type and their dating is discussed; and in the National Museum, Tokyo, illustrated by M. Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 90, no. 87, where the author states that the motifs and style of the decoration is found at Guantaizhen and Dong'aikoucun at Cizhou.
Two Cizhou painted truncated meiping were sold in these rooms. See 23 March 1995, lot 348 and 19 September 1996, lot 254.
Compare the truncated meiping of this type, but with the addition of hovering insects, in the Chang Foundation, illustrated by J. Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1990, no. 48. Others, also painted with peony sprays and with leaves of varying form are in the Hakone Museum, Japan, 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, 17 November 1980-18 January 1981, illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsang, pl. 87, where meiping of this type and their dating is discussed; and in the National Museum, Tokyo, illustrated by M. Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 90, no. 87, where the author states that the motifs and style of the decoration is found at Guantaizhen and Dong'aikoucun at Cizhou.
Two Cizhou painted truncated meiping were sold in these rooms. See 23 March 1995, lot 348 and 19 September 1996, lot 254.