Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 12th Century The globular body with high shoulders below a tall widely flaring trumpet neck and supported on a spreading circular foot, brilliantly incised and painted in an iron-black-brown oxide to opposite sides of the body with a full blossoming peony flowerhead borne on a leafy scrolling stem at the mid body culminating in a large palmette-like leaf on the neck, the spreading foot incised with a band of feathery scrolls, all under an apple-green crackled-glaze which pools just above the unglazed foot rim and base interior. 11 5/8in (29.5cm) high