The rounded conical sides rising from the knife-cut foot to a finger-grooved band below the rim, the interior resist-decorated with three leafy flower sprigs reserved in brown against the finely variegated milky blue and buff ground, the exterior covered in a dark brown glaze ending in a line above a wide band of brick-red wash above the foot, box .

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1985. 

Note: Among the daring and innovative techniques the Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi province are most famous for is the technique of using paper cut-outs as stencils to create resist designs. For a discussion of the processes involved in producing such designs, see R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pp. 36-7.

A Jizhou paper-cut resist-decorated bowl with similar decoration of three flower sprigs on the interior, of slightly larger size (5 5/8 in.), was sold in these rooms, 26 March 2010, lot 1334.  

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I & II,  15 - 16 September 2011. New York, Rockefeller Plazza