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A rare Jizhou 'freely painted' vase
Song dynasty
The ovoid body surmounted by a short lipped neck, covered in a dark brown glaze splashed with freely painted sweeping, overlapping streaks of buff colour, stopping short of the slightly flaring short recessed foot to expose the pale grey granular body
22.8 cm. high

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Lot Essay

It is rare to find a Jizhou vase with this freely painted design. It was an innovation of the pioneering potters at the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province and was a difficult glazing process to control. This particular design has been attributed to the Yonghe kilns which were part of the Jizhou kiln group. A bowl with a similar pattern is ilustrated in Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 123d; and in the Shanghai Museum, Zhongguo meishu quanji: Taoci juan, vol.II, 1988, pl. 183.
A much smaller, freely painted Jizhou vase was sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1993, lot 257.

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