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Jin Dynasty
The rounded body tapering towards the foot, surmounted by a small double-ribbed neck, covered overall with a lustrous brownish-black glaze and freely painted in russet streaks to depict a bird in flight, the unglazed footring revealing a buff-coloured stoneware body.
21.5cm (8 1/2in) high.
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金 黑釉鐵鏽花小口瓶
Provenance: A European Private Collection.
Ovoid jars of this type, featuring distinctive small, double-ringed lips, are known as xiaokou ping (small-mouthed bottles). These jars were likely sealed with a fabric-wrapped wooden dowel and used for storing wine and other liquids. Typically covered in a dark glaze, these bottles often display abstract floral designs or motifs suggestive of birds in flight, as seen on this example, painted in russet or rust-brown slip. The decorations are characteristically executed with bold, calligraphic strokes, lending the jars a dynamic and expressive quality.
A bottle from the collection of Robert M. Ferris IV with similarly-painted birds in flight rendered in russet against a black glaze is illustrated by R. Mowry, , Cambridge MA, 1996, p.162, no.53. Another similar black-glazed vase painted with birds in russet is illustrated by R. Krahl, , vol.1, London, 1994, p.255, no.465.