A ’CIZHOU‘ PAINTED 'BIRD AND FLOWER' MEIPING JIN / YUAN DYNASTY

of slender ovoid form, the gently rounded shoulder rising to a small neck with a splayed angular mouth, freely painted around the body in iron-brown with birds and butterflies among foliage, between registers of further foliage all on a white-slip ground, covered overall in a transparent glaze, save for the low ring foot revealing the buff-colored body

Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, no. 34.

There are restored chips to the rim with associated overpainting. There are touch ups to the glaze on the body, with a particularly large patch to the shoulder.
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