An iron-brown-decorated teadust-glazed vase, Jin dynasty | 金 茶葉末釉鐵鏽花紋小口瓶

An iron-brown-decorated teadust-glazed vase

Jin dynasty

金 茶葉末釉鐵鏽花紋小口瓶

the tapering baluster body with broad swelling shoulders surmounted by a short double-ringed mouth, freely painted in iron-oxide with an abstract design of three birds in flight reserved on a speckled teadust-brown glaze, the glaze stopping neatly above the foot ring to reveal the buff body, the countersunk base glazed 

Height 7⅞ in., 20.1 cm