Lot 313. A Cizhou painted and incised 'phoenix' jar, Jin – Yuan dynasty (1115-1368); 218 cm, 7 1/8  in. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000. Lot Sold 250,000 HKD (31,938 USD). © Sotheby's.

sturdily potted with a robust ovoid body surmounted by a short neck, the exterior painted in black over a white slip with two large phoenix soaring amidst cloud scrolls.

Provenance: A private Japanese collection, by 1980.

Literature: Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares 960 - 1600 A.D, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, p.206, fig. 252.