A RARE INSCRIBED 'CIZHOU' BLACK-GLAZED SGRAFFIATO MEIPING JIN / YUAN DYNASTY the robustly potted ovoid body with gently rounded sides rising to a short waisted ringed neck and cupped mouth, applied overall with a glossy dark-brown glaze, carved through to leave a broad register of lotus and aquatic plants set against a hatched wave ground, segmented by two narrow vertical cartouches, each enclosing five characters together reading jiahe sheng guizi menshan chu gaoren (harmonious household produces abundant offspring, virtuous family educates illustrious figures), all enclosed within double-line borders, the thick glaze pooling at the shoulder and stopping unevenly above the knife-pared foot revealing the buff-colored body, Japanese wood box (??) Height 10 1/2 in., 26.5 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Exhibited Chūgoku Kotōji Tō-Sō Meitoten [Chinese Ceramics Tang-Song Masterworks exhibition], The Japan Ceramic Society, Shirakiya, Tokyo, 1964, cat. no. 169.
A RARE INSCRIBED 'CIZHOU' BLACK-GLAZED SGRAFFIATO MEIPING JIN / YUAN DYNASTY the robustly potted ovoid body with gently rounded sides rising to a short waisted ringed neck and cupped mouth, applied overall with a glossy dark-brown glaze, carved through to leave a broad register of lotus and aquatic plants set against a hatched wave ground, segmented by two narrow vertical cartouches, each enclosing five characters together reading jiahe sheng guizi menshan chu gaoren (harmonious household produces abundant offspring, virtuous family educates illustrious figures), all enclosed within double-line borders, the thick glaze pooling at the shoulder and stopping unevenly above the knife-pared foot revealing the buff-colored body, Japanese wood box (??) Height 10 1/2 in., 26.5 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Exhibited Chūgoku Kotōji Tō-Sō Meitoten [Chinese Ceramics Tang-Song Masterworks exhibition], The Japan Ceramic Society, Shirakiya, Tokyo, 1964, cat. no. 169.
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