A PAINTED JIZHOU MEIPING
PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION
A PAINTED JIZHOU MEIPING

SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

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A PAINTED JIZHOU MEIPING
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The meiping is painted in brown on a white slip with a bird perched on a flowering branch on one side, the reverse with a large banana tree emerging from behind a jagged rock, with butterflies between, all with incised details, and under a clear glaze.
7 ¾ in. (19.4 cm.) high
Provenance
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 19 March 1993.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.

Lot Essay

A similarly decorated brown-painted Jizhou vase of high-shouldered form, also dated to the Southern Song or Yuan dynasties, is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 519. See, also, the example of similar size and decoration illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, p. 387, no. 175.

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