Lot 2087. A Cizhou-type cut-glaze meiping, Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price Realized USD 7,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014. 

The tapering ovoid bottle is carved through the dark khaki-brown glaze to the buff-colored ground before firing with a broad band of leafy scroll reserved on a striated ground between double-line borders, and with another single line above the foot.

Provenance: Warren E. Cox, New York, according to label.
Cyus and Mildred Churchill Collection, Concordia House, Illinois.
The Concordia House Collection; Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2007, lot 139 (part).

Note: A similar meiping is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 150, no. 451, where it is dated to the Jin or Xixia dynasty.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 20 - 21 March 2014