Lot 521. A 'Cizhou' painted 'Dragon and Phoenix' jar, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). Estimate 50,000 — 70,000 HKD. Lot sold 62,500 HKD.  Photo Sotheby's.

vividly painted to the exterior with a dragon and a phoenix amidst dense clouds, each enclosed in a panel, divided by swiftly drawn flowers, all below a band of chrysanthemum scrolls around the shoulder - 29.1 cm, 11 1/2  in.

Note: A jar of this type, in the Kazuo Museum, Liaoning province, is illustrated in The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics. Liao, Western Xia, Jin, vol. 9, Shanghai, 1999, pl. 179; another in the Cleveland Museum of Art, was included in the exhibition Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China. Tz'u-chou Type Wares, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, cat. no. 93, illustrated with a related jar recovered underneath the walls of the Yuan capital, present-day Beijing, fig. 269; compare also a jar sold in these rooms, 24th/25th November 2014, lot 1010.

A 'Cizhou' painted 'Dragon and Phoenix' jar, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). Estimate 50,000 — 70,000 HKD. Sold for 112,500 HKD at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 24th/25th November 2014, lot 1010. Photo Sotheby’s.

Cf. A ‘Cizhou’ painted ‘Dragon and Phoenix’ jar, Yuan dynasty