Description The narrow lower body sweeping to a broad shoulder and rising to an upright short cylindrical neck, covered overall with a creamy-ivory slip stopping above the foot revealing the gray body, and painted in blackish brown with cranes between pine trees, all between scrolling flowers and under a clear glaze. To the base an inscription in black: Jihao ... Xizhou (possibly referring to the minister of rituals Zhang Rongduan who lived in Fuyang, now Cizhou, in the 17th century). Neck polished.
Dimensions Height 24 cm
Provenance An inventory number in red to the base: 586316 Lempertz, Cologne, 7/8.12.2007, lot 914 Private collection, Hesse
Notes VAT: Margin scheme
