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Description: | Cizhou ware meiping vase with ovoid body, contracted neck, flat everted lip, and low foot rim decorated with a bold design of very thick purple-black peony and leaf scrolls on a cream background. The shoulder has a band of flat leaf ornament and base of the outside with wavy band of leaf ornament. The vase is decorated using the sgraffito technique; a layer of black slip was applied on the body on top of a layer of white slip, which was applied all over the vase including the base (except the foot-rim). The black was subsequently scraped away, leaving the flower and leaf scroll design. The formalized leaf design is incised through the black to add definition, and the whole body, except the base and bare foot rim, is covered with a transparent and finely crazed glaze. The neck is repaired. outstanding rare Cizhou sgraffiato vase (meiping). The ovoid stoneware vase is decorated with a beautiful undulating peony stem bearing six large blooms, with the shoulder and base highlighted with a pattern of overlapping petals. The decoration is crisply and finely carved through the rich brownish-black glaze with the remaining, unusual and almost baroque floral design covered in a white wash. Description Source: Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 29 | Subjects: | vase receptacle/vessel vase | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=314... | Go to resource |
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