The globular body of this rare jar with everted rim, rising from an unglazed splayed foot. Covered overall with a warm ivory-tinged slip, with dramatic black slip-painted leaves, the details crisply incised.
A Cizhou painted globular jar (Northern Song/Jin dynasty, (960-1234)
Description
Dimensions: 14.6 cm high
Provenance:
Purchased from Oriental Arts UK, March 2003
A private Hong Kong collection
Published:
Oriental Arts UK, Asia Week New York 2003, no. 28, p. 24.
The globular body of this rare jar with everted rim, rising from an unglazed splayed foot. Covered overall with a warm ivory-tinged slip, with dramatic black slip-painted leaves, the details crisply incised.
Compare an almost identical jar, formerly in the collections of Wang Yuan, Beijing and Bertram S. Boggis, New York, sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 16-17 October 1958, lot 294.
