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A RARE LARGE CARVED ‘DING’ WHITE-GLAZED 31st March 2005, lot 32, and illustrated in Sotheby’s: Thirty PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTOR 金 磁州窰褐釉剔花玉壺春瓶
‘FISH’ BASIN Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 103; another sold A ‘CIZHOU’ SGRAFFIATO BROWN-GLAZED
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY in our London rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 297. ‘FLORAL’ VASE (YUHUCHUNPING) 來源
Diameter 11¼ in., 28.5 cm Dr. Cornelius Osgood (1905-1985) was a professor of JIN DYNASTY 得於紐約
anthropology at Yale University, New Haven, and a leading Height 11¼ in., 28.6 cm
PROVENANCE scholar of the cultures of the Arctic and East Asia. Joining
Collection of Dr. Cornelius Osgood (1905-1985). the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale in 1930, PROVENANCE
Osgood became the curator of its anthropology department
Basins of large dimension, such as the present example, are in 1934 and was appointed the Peabody’s associate director Acquired in New York.
very rare. Similar basins are known in museum collections; in 1966. He built up a strong collection of Chinese porcelain,
compare one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei with many works acquired from Frank Caro. $ 6,000-8,000
(accession no. 故瓷014203N000000000); another example
now in the British Museum, London, from the Sir Percival ⊖ $ 40,000-60,000
David Collection, published in Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics,
London, 1982, col. pl. 29.
北宋 定窰刻白釉魚紋大盌
Only a few pieces similar in size and design to the present
basin have been sold at auction; one carved with larger fish 來源
and lotus petals on the exterior, in our Hong Kong rooms, Cornelius Osgood博士 (1905-1985) 收藏
31st October 1995, lot 343, again in our Hong Kong rooms,

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