A LARGE WELL-PAINTED CIZHOU MEIPING

This boldly painted meiping is particularly rare in that it is decorated with two different types of blossoms—peony and lotus, while other meiping are more commonly decorated with one type of blossom or a thick band of leafy fronds. Another meiping with two different bands of decoration, but with the primary band executed in sgraffiato, is illustrated by Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang, in Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, fig. 188, p. 168.