J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
45.
A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED CIZHOU POTTERY MEIPING
Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1279-1368)
of well-potted baluster form with high rounded shoulders, the small mouth with thick rounded lip above a short concave neck, the steep sides tapering down to a ring foot with broad flat rim enclosing a recessed base, covered with a creamy white slip under a clear glaze, now showing beige and brown staining from burial, the glaze and slip ending short of the foot revealing the gray stoneware body with tan-brown surface where exposed in the firing.
Height 11 1⁄4 inches (28.5 cm)
A slightly smaller Cizhou white pottery meiping of very similar form is illustrated by Rotondo-McCord in Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans, 2000, no. 24, pp. 78-79. A larger white Cizhou pottery meiping of the same type and similar form, painted with two characters: “Nei Fu” (“Palace Repository”) in iron-brown on the shoulder, is illustrated by Mino in Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, pl. 73, pp. 170-171, where the author cites several other related Cizhou pottery examples including one found in a Yuan dynasty storage cellar at Liangxiangzhen in Beijing, published in Kaogu, 1972, no. 6, fig. 4, p. 33.
元 磁州白釉梅瓶 高 28.5 厘米
45.
A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED CIZHOU POTTERY MEIPING
Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1279-1368)
Height 11 1⁄4 inches (28.5 cm)