Southern Song Dynasty|The baluster body raising to a high shoulder, short tapering neck and lipped rim, resist-decorated to the exterior with two pairs of confronted phoenix detailed with long feathered tail and plumage, separated by billowing clouds, reserved on a dark brown glaze, fitted box. 28.5cm (11 1/4in) high (2).|南宋 吉州窯黑釉剔鳳凰紋梅瓶Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong circa 1980s-1990s來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港Compare a very similar Jizhou resist-decorated vase, meiping, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century, in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, similarly glazed dark-brown and resist-decorated with a pair of phoenix, illustrated by R.Mowry Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard, 1996, pp.253-255, no.103.A related Cizhou resist-decorated and carved brown-glazed vase, meiping, Southern Song dynasty, of similar form but decorated with prunus branches, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 April 2017, lot 109.