Lot 1407. A 'Cizhou' painted meiping, Yuan-Ming dynasty (1271-1644). Height 11 1/4 in., 28.5 cm. Estimate: 3,000-5,000 USD. Sold Price: 5,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

decorated with two lozenge-shaped panels, one enclosing two cranes in a landscape with a gnarled overhanging pine tree, the other containing a boy holding a floral sprig.

Provenance: Collection of Mrs. Charles Porter Wilson.
Warren E. Cox New York.

Literature: Warren E. Cox, The book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1944, rpt. 1945, vol. 1, p. 205, fig. 382.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 15 Sep 2018