445 - A Chinese black-glazed russet splashed bottle Yuhuchun ping vase,Jin-Yuan dynastythe elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short foot to a trumpet neck, the surface covered in a lustrous brown-black glaze running onto part of the foot, the body freely painted wit stylised foliage28.5cm highA similar bottle vase in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, is illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1995, no. 52, where the author notes on p.160 that bottles with painted decoration, without context and without painted borders relate closely to stylized floral designs on standard Cizhou bottles produced from the late 12th or early 13th century, and therefore must date to the Jin period.金/元 黑釉褐彩玉壺春瓶

A Chinese black-glazed russet splashed bottle Yuhuchun ping vase,Jin-Yuan dynastythe elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short foot to a trumpet neck, the surface covered in a lustrous brown-black glaze running onto part of the foot, the body freely painted wit stylised foliage28.5cm highA similar bottle vase in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, is illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1995, no. 52, where the author notes on p.160 that bottles with painted decoration, without context and without painted borders relate closely to stylized floral designs on standard Cizhou bottles produced from the late 12th or early 13th century, and therefore must date to the Jin period.金/元 黑釉褐彩玉壺春瓶 Condition Report: several rim chips largely under the rim and firing faults to body of vase and some scratches to glaze