SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

For a similar vase of slightly more squat shape from the Scheinman Collection, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, no. 102, where the author discusses the method of decoration on wares of this type, pp. 251-2. Another similar Jizhou ‘prunus’ vase is illustrated by H. Tseng and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Boston, 1972, no. 129. A further similar vase in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is illustrated by J. Wirgin, ‘Sung Ceramic Wares from Chi-Chou’ in the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Art, Stockholm, No. 34, 1962, pl. 8b.