Lot 805. A rare Yaozhou celadon vase, meiping, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016

The body is carved with a wide band of leafy peony scroll, beneath a narrow band of leaf scroll and overlapping lappets on the shoulder and above the foot. The glaze is a pale olive-green color suffused with a fine crackle. 14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.) high.

Provenance: Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.

Notes: A related Yaozhou celadon meiping found at Longqiaogou, Fuping county, also dated to the Jin dynasty and currently in the Shaanxi History Museum, is illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 15, Shaanxi, Beijing, 2008, p. 194, no. 194.

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza