PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS A BLACK-GLAZED RUSSET-PAINTED MEIPING VASESong dynasty Well-potted with high rounded shoulders tapering down to a small foot, the blackish-brown glaze covers inside and out and thinning at the edge of mouth rim into beige color, freely painted on the shoulders with floral sprays in russet-brown, the bottom of the foot unglazed showing pale buff stoneware body. 10 5/8in (27.2cm) high; 5 1/2in (14.2cm) diam 宋 黑釉褐彩梅瓶 A black-glazed meiping of this elegant form is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and illustrated by Tseng and Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston , Boston, 1972, no. 99.