A Cizhou Ware Flower Meiping The vase is carved with a broad band of leafy peony scroll bearing three prominent blossoms between bands of overlapping diagonal petals on the shoulder and around the foot, all reserved in white-brown slip on a blackish slip ground and covered with a clear glaze. Height:29cm, Width:19.5cm, Condition: Nicks to the base. With wood box. Auction Result Comparison: Compare a close related lot, at Christie’s THE CLASSIC AGE OF CHINESE CERAMICS - THE LINYUSHANREN COLLECTION, PART III on 22 Mar 2018, lot 516, sold for USD 396,500. Provenance: By descent to Family of Nishi Tetsutarou, a famous Japanese family around 1945.