Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)The rounded conical body resist-decorated on the interior with twelve scattered paper-cut plum blossoms, reserved in brown on the russet ground, the exterior with a dark brown glaze stopping short above the foot revealing the orange buff.Diam. 12 cmProvenance:- Cheung King Antiques, Hong Kong (1999)- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, AmsterdamCompare:- M. Tregear, La Céramique Song, Fribourg 1982, p.193, no. 264 and p.198, no. 272- M. Medley, The Chinese Potter, Oxford 1989, p. 159, fig. 119 - R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. I, Londen 1994, no. 525, p. 283 - [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 101, p. 250