A BLACK-GLAZED SGRAFFITO VASE (YUHUCHUNPING) JIN / YUAN DYNASTY

the pear-shaped body surmounted by a slender waisted neck flaring to a trumpet mouth, covered overall with a rich dark brown glaze boldly carved through to the buff body with a wide band of peony blossoms between a slanting key-fret band encircling the shoulders and incised rings below, the glaze thinned and irregularly applied above the foot, the base unglazed 

Zhongguo taoci jingpin zhan [The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties], National Museum of History, Taipei, 1987, p. 39.

Related vases with bands of leaf scrolls and keyfret are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 193; and another in the Meiyintang Collection illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. 3, 2006,  no. 1526.