JIN/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

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A HENAN IRON-DECORATED OLIVE-BROWN-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
JIN/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped body decorated with three descending cranes that fired a dark silver in contrast to the dark olive-brown glaze that falls in an irregular line on the flared foot
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired prior to 1985.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar bottle painted with a similar descending bird is illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995, pp. 159-60, no. 52, where it is dated Jin dynasty. The author distinguishes between the Jin period bottles which have smaller bodies and longer necks and the Yuan ones which have larger, fuller bodies and shorter necks.

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