1-234-391 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Brown painted vase and cover, Jin or Yuan dynasty, China, 13th century. Tall vase and cover of attenuated meiping form. The neck is painted in brown iron oxide with straight petals above a large floral spray band at the shoulder. The body has a wide band of Buddhist lion dogs playing with brocade balls and ribbons and clouds above a narrow sectioned band of linked cash diaper and swastikas above a wide band of peony and clouds. The cover has an applied lion dog and ball, piecrust rim and plug base. The decoration appears under a clay stained greenish glaze.