AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED MEIPING

JIN DYNASTY, LATE 12TH-FIRST HALF 13TH CENTURY

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AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED MEIPING
JIN DYNASTY, LATE 12TH-FIRST HALF 13TH CENTURY
The high-shouldered, sharply tapering body with a double-grooved band on the high shoulder below the double-ringed mouth, freely painted in iron-oxide with three birds in flight reserved on the blackish glaze with an almost haze-like russet mottling
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similarly proportioned meiping of this type and date, also painted with birds, from the collection of Robert M. Ferris IV, illustrated by R.D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers; Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 161-3, no. 53. The author notes that bottles of this type, known as xiaokou ping (small-mouthed bottles), were probably sealed with a fabric-wrapped wooden dowl and were used for storing wine and other liquids.

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