A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON VASE, MEIPING

JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

Details

A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON VASE, MEIPING
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
The body is carved with a wide band of leafy peony scroll, beneath a narrow band of leaf scroll and overlapping lappets on the shoulder and above the foot. The glaze is a pale olive-green color suffused with a fine crackle.
14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.

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Lot Essay

A related Yaozhou celadon meiping found at Longqiaogou, Fuping county, also dated to the Jin dynasty and currently in the Shaanxi History Museum, is illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 15, Shaanxi, Beijing, 2008, p. 194, no. 194.

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