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A RARE ‘DING’ BOTTLE VASE vase with a flared mouth formerly in the collection of George
JIN DYNASTY Eumorfopoulos and now in the British Museum, London
(acc. no. 1936,1012.26). Another with a straight lip from the
the ample pear-shaped body supported on a straight Carl Kempe Collection was sold in our London rooms, 14th
foot and sweeping into a tall flaring cylindrical neck with May 2008, lot 267, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 25th
an everted rim, covered overall with a transparent ivory- November 2014, lot 3222.
tinged glaze pooling to a deeper tone, the unglazed footring
exposing the whitish body The result of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Height 13 in., 33 cm thermoluminescence test no. 02150 is consistent with the
dating of this lot.
PROVENANCE
$ 30,000-50,000
Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 3rd
April 2001.
For two vases of very similar form, compare one included 金 定窰白釉長頸瓶
in the exhibition The Charles B. Hoyt Collection: Memorial 來源：
Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1952, cat. no. 349,
and another sold in our London rooms, 6th July 1971, lot 64. Blitz Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art，阿姆斯特
丹，2001年4月3日
For related vases with slightly different rims, see a smaller
example with a more rounded everted lip, sold at Christie’s 本品經香港中文大學熱釋光檢測（編號02150），結
Hong Kong, 28th November 2017, lot 2987. Compare also a 果與其年代相符

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A BLUE AND WHITE FACETED PEAR-SHAPED VASE 1984, cat. nos 130 and 131. Compare another illustrated in
YUAN DYNASTY Yabe Yoshiaki, Toji taikei: Gen no sometsuke [Blue and white
ware of Yuan], vol. 41, Tokyo, 1974, pl. 72. For examples sold
of octagonal section, each facet painted with an upright petal at auction, refer to a vase also with the neck reduced, sold
lappet below a tall rectangular panel enclosing a blossoming in our London rooms, 27th November 1973, lot 211, and one
floral sprig framed by foliate brackets at the corners, four sold at Christie’s New York, 30th May 1991, lot 305.
pendent petal lappets encircling the constricted neck,
upright plantain leaves at the rim, bands of keyfret or classic $ 10,000-15,000
scroll dividing each register of decoration, the rim reduced,
wood stand (2) 元 青花花卉紋八棱玉壺春瓶
Height 10⅜ in., 26.3 cm
來源：
PROVENANCE
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 23rd March 2000. 埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，2000年3月23日
A similar vase, with the neck reduced and fitted with an
Ottoman silver-gilt rim mount, is published in Regina Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul,
vol. II, London, 1986, pl. 574. Two others of this type were
included in the exhibition Jingdezhen Wares: The Yuan
Evolution, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong,

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