NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

The shape of this vase is rare to find in Cizhou wares, but a Yaozhou vase of similar shape from the Eumofopoulos Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, col. pl. 29, where it is dated to the 11th-12th century. The design of the trefoil-like clouds in the central band on the present vase is also very rare.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P199u52 is consistent with the dating of this lot.