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Song dynasty ewers with upright sides such as the present lot 壺盤口，短頸內束，溜肩，前側開短流，後側黏燒扁平把手，短直
appear to be rarer than the globular or tall slender versions set with 腹，腹部斜刀滿刻連枝牡丹紋，花瓣再以篦刀劃以經脈，底部上收成
a smaller spout. A Northern Song qingbai ewer of related shape in 圈足，通體施青釉，受刀處釉色沉積，有深淺濃淡之效。
Hebei Zhangjiakou Shi Xuanhua Qu wenwu baoguansuo is included
in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Ceramic 宋代酒壺常見多為球形鼓腹或者長身細流之形制，如此壺短身直壁者
Art Unearthed in China], Beijing, 2008, vol.3, p.155, pl.155; and a 十分少見。長身細流之酒壺常與溫碗搭配使用，而此類短身短流之壺
Northern Song Yaozhou celadon carved ewer with a more globular 容積有限，更有可能為單人單壺使用。河北省張家口市宣化區文物保
body is in Henan Shanmenxia Museum, illustrated in ibid., vol.12, 管所藏一件北宋青白釉印花執壺，其身型與本件執壺當屬同類，見
p.133, pl.133. 《中國出土瓷器全集》，北京，2008年，卷3，頁155，編號155。三
門峽市博物館藏一件北宋耀州窯青釉刻花執壺身形一如本品矮敦，腹
部較直略鼓，可資參考，見前書，卷12，頁133，編號133。

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