Lot 78. A 'Cizhou' painted  'Bird and Flower' meiping, Jin - Yuan dynasty (1115-1368). Height 15 1/8  in., 38.3 cm. Estimate 25,000 — 35,000 USD. Lot sold 32,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

of slender ovoid form, the gently rounded shoulder rising to a small neck with a splayed angular mouth, freely painted around the body in iron-brown with birds and butterflies among foliage, between registers of further foliage all on a white-slip ground, covered overall in a transparent glaze, save for the low ring foot revealing the buff-colored body. 

Literature: Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, no. 34.

Sotheby's. Song Tradition: Early Ceramics from the Yang De Tang Collection. New York, 17 march 2015, 11:00 AM