Longquan Celadon Porcelain Moon Flask

Song Dynasty (960-1279) / Yuan Dynasty (1127-1368)

Urn shaped neck flanked by two scroll handles, each side of the body with a raised dragon with punch work background, the crackled celadon glaze revealing just the bottom edge of the spreading oval foot rim. With a wood storage box with attached strip of paper.

The characters:
支 那 青 慈 丙 老 人
耳 付 龍 文 【花】 化 生 (probably meant to be written as the next character, which looks similar)

The Pinyin:
Zhī nà Qīng Cí Bing Lǎo Rén
Ěr Fù Lóng Wén Huā Shēng

Transliteration (top to bottom, left column):
Shina (japanesse word for china) blue-green ceramic of (belonging to?)
Bing laoren (”old man bing”)

[top to bottom, right column): Er Fu Long (japanesse person name ??long == dragon), wén huā = culture

H. 10 1/4 in.