A CHINESE BLACK GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

A CHINESE BLACK GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

SONG DYNASTY 960-1279

The plain body with four concentric bands to the shoulder, decorated with a thick viscous black glaze and freely painted with an iron-oxide floral spray, 27.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Dr J S Gordon.

Cf. M Tregear, Song Ceramics, pp.46-47, no.27 and pp.196-197, no.267 for very similar examples of black glazed bottles in a private collection and in the collection of the British Museum.