A Jizhou cut-glaze and resist-decorated paper-cut pear-shaped vase, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate $40,000 – $60,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The body is decorated on two sides with blossoming plum branches, the stems cut through the brown glaze and the flowers executed in resist technique with details painted in brown slip and covered with a clear glaze, all against a dark brown glaze that continues over the lipped rim into the interior of the neck. 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) high, box

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 19 September 2002, lot 92. 

Notes: Compare the similar Jizhou vase from the Scheinman Collection illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp. 251-52, no. 102, where the author discusses the two techniques, cut glaze and resist glaze seen on the present vase.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 15 - 16 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza