Lot 1315. A rare russet-decorated blackish-brown-glazed jar, Northern Song dynasty, 11th-12th century. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Photo: Christie's Image Ltd 2016. 

The jar has a high-shouldered tapering body, short neck and everted mouth with raised outer rim, and is covered with a mottled blackish-brown glaze that ends in a line above the foot and is decorated in russet with small flower-like markings. 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

Note: It is extremely rare to find a black-glazed vase of this type with russet markings suggestive of flower heads. Compare the black-glazed meiping of more slender proportions decorated with russet florets composed of five dots illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 43.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza