Lot 252
A Chinese Painted Cizhou Ware Dragon and Phoenix Jar, probably Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the tapering globular body with a short neck, painted around the exterior in shades of brown with two large shaped panels enclosing a large scaly dragon rising from a sea of waves and a phoenix in flight amid cloud scrolls, separated by pendant and upright leaf tips, height 8 3/4 in Provenance: Richfield Antiques, New York, NY; acquired 1974. Note: For a similarly decorated Cizhou jar with phoenix and dragon design, see New Orleans Museum of Art, acc. # 2000.400, illustrated Rotondo-McCord, Lisa, Five Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics from the Robin and R. Randolph Richmond, Jr. Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, p. 122, pl. 97.
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