YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

Details

A PAINTED CIZHOU 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' JAR
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Warren E. Cox, 2 March 1966.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000), and thence by descent.

Exhibited

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.

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Lot Essay

Compare the jar similar in both size and decoration from the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated by Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, pp. 210-11, pl. 93.

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