NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Cizhou painted meiping of this type are particularly highly prized, and examples can be found in many famous collections. A very similar vase in the Indianapolis Museum of Art is illustrated by Y. Mino and J. Robinson in Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, p. 195, pl. 71.