Description: Chinese Jizhou Meiping
Song-Yuan Dynasty, 12th/14th Century
The baluster form painted in dark brown with two hexafoil panels each with a waterbird and millet sprays on a bank, reserved on a wave pattern ground and set between two registers of palmettes and scrolls, below two phoenix in flight on the shoulder and leaf lappets at the neck.
Height 10 1/2 inches.
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