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21. A Qingbai Iron-Spotted ‘Rice Measure’
Southern Song – Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century

of globular form with wide mouth and rolled rim, combed with concentric basket-weave lines
below a horizontal band of rounded bosses dotted in iron-brown at the base of the plain short
neck, covered inside and out with a translucent sky-blue glaze, the small flat base left unglazed,
the white porcelain body showing a ring of reddish-brown from the kiln support, and with an
indecipherable character incised on the base.

Height 3 ⁄4 inches (9.5 cm)
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A similar iron-spotted Qingbai jar of smaller size is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
Volume One, London, 1994, p. 333, no. 621, where the author cites an example with raised knobs instead of brown spots
excavated at Xishi village, Quanjiao county, Anhui province, from the Northern Song tomb of Zhang Zhihe who died in A.D.
1089 and was buried in 1092, illustrated in Wenwu, 1988, No. 11, pl. 6, fig. 6, and p. 68, fig. 7-7.
Another similar example, also of smaller size, from the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, now at the University of
Sussex, is illustrated by Pierson (ed.) in Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002, pp.
174–175, no. 93.
南宋 — 元 青白缽 高 9.5 厘米

22. A Qingbai Glazed Iron-Brown Splashed P orcelain
Dragon-F orm Brushrest
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)
the dragon with pointed snout, forked horns and long mane shown crouching with back arched
and tail curled on a flat rectangular base, the body impressed with scales and with a row of spikes
applied on the spine, covered with a translucent glaze of pale bluish tone liberally splashed with
dark iron-brown, the base left plain and the underside wiped clean of glaze, showing the dense
white porcelain.
Length 5 ⁄4 inches (14.6 cm)
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A very similarly modelled Qingbai glazed porcelain dragon excavated at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi from a Northern Song tomb
dated to the second year of Zhiping, corresponding to A.D. 1065 is illustrated by Addis, Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs
and Some Other Dated Material: a Handbook, London, 1978, p. 24, pl. 15b.
南宋 青白褐斑龍形筆架 長 14.6 厘米