New Forms - Song/Yuan

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A CIZHOU GREEN-GLAZED PAINTED DISH
Song/Jin dynasty, 960-1234
磁 州 窯 綠 釉 纏 枝 花 葉 紋 折 沿 盤 ( 宋 / 金 960-1234)
Dimensions: 14 cm high
The rare dish incised and painted in an iron-black oxide with a blossoming peony
flower on a leafy scrolling stem. The rim of the dish also painted black, all under an
apple-green, slightly cracked glaze. The shallow foot and base left unglazed.
Examples of Cizhou green-glazed and iron-black wares are rare. Compare a vase
with similar incised ‘peony’ decoration, Bonhams New York, 15 March 2001, lot
83. Another fragmentary vase is illustrated in ‘Guantai Cizhou Yaozhi (The Cizhou
Kiln Site at Guantai)’, Beijing, 1997, pl. 70, fig. 1.