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19. A Qingbai Glazed P orcelain Ewer And Cover
Southern Song – Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century

of plain spherical form surmounted by a short concave neck, the wide mouth with galleried rim
flanked by two small rings applied on the shoulders joined by an incised double-line band running
under the arch handle and over the base of the short upright spout, the disc-shaped cover with
button knop and applied at one side on top with a small ring for attachment to a corresponding
ring at the top of the handle, the exterior of the ewer and cover covered with a glossy translucent
glaze of bright aquamarine-blue tone extending down to the edge of the thick ring foot, the slightly
recessed base unglazed revealing the white porcelain body.
Height 5 ⁄2 inches (14 cm)
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A slightly smaller ewer of similar form, lacking the cover, dated by epitaph to the third year of Kaixi (A.D. 1207), discovered
in 1975 at Shangrao city and now in the collection of Jiangxi Provincial Museum is illustrated by Peng (ed.) in Dated Qingbai
Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 70, no. 69.
Another Qingbai ewer of related form, lacking the cover, unearthed from the Dakou kiln site at Pucheng, now in the Fujian
Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Fukken tōji (Fujian Ceramics), Kyoto, 1983, no. 82, attributed to the Song dynasty.
南宋 — 元 青白執壺 高 14 厘米