Chinese ceramic Cizhou style meiping vase

A Chinese ceramic Cizhou style meiping vase
Song Dynasty
height 14in (35.5cm)Provenance: sold Christies, New York, 18 September 1997, lot 363.Footnote: A similarly decorated example was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, Catalogue, no. 1267. Another of similar form is illustrated Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 179, no. 532.
Condition Report: Mouth somewhat uneven. With a few missing glaze spots. General marks, scratches, rubbing, wear, glazing and firing flaws and some dirt accumulation. With scattered minor chipped losses to foot and strips of glaze loss.