J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics A.D. 400–1400:
Selections from an American Collection
March 19 - 31, 2007
15.
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED STONEWARE VASE (MEIPING)
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
of slender upright ovoid form, the steeply rounded shoulders surmounted by a short cylindrical neck with wide flat flaring mouth, covered with a dark brown-black glaze decorated with clusters of russet-brown splashes widely spaced around the sides in two rows, the glaze thinning around the upturned lip and inner edge of the mouth to show matching russet-colored borders and ending in sweeping lines above the splayed foot revealing the pale tan-colored stoneware.
Height 8 5⁄8 inches (22 cm)
Compare the Northern Song stoneware meiping of closely related form with russet-streaked black glaze illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. One, London, 1994, no. 458, pp. 252-253.
