拍品专文
The golden opalescent quality of the design contrasts very effectively with the dense, dark brown glaze beneath. This was an interesting technique used at the Jizhou kilns to paint pale designs on top of the unfired glaze. When the piece was fired, and the glaze flowed slightly, the designs were rendered in softer focus, and the patterns, which were often akin to those seen on carved lacquers of the period, provided a pleasing richness of surface decoration.
A meiping decorated with star-shaped flowers in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, vol. 15, Shanghai, 1986, pl. 66. A meiping in the St. Louis Art Museum illustrated by M. Medley, The Chinese Potter, London, 1976, fig. 122, is decorated with a design of scattered prunus blossoms. Also compare to the pair of Jizhou pear-shaped vases decorated in this technique, but with a tixi-style design, sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 403.
A meiping decorated with star-shaped flowers in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, vol. 15, Shanghai, 1986, pl. 66. A meiping in the St. Louis Art Museum illustrated by M. Medley, The Chinese Potter, London, 1976, fig. 122, is decorated with a design of scattered prunus blossoms. Also compare to the pair of Jizhou pear-shaped vases decorated in this technique, but with a tixi-style design, sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 403.