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PROPERTY FROM THE MACLEAN COLLECTION, ILLINOIS THE PROPERTY OF A NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTOR
1808 1809
A CARVED QINGBAI 'BOYS' BOWL A VERY RARE MARBLED VASE, MEIPING
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279) NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
The bowl has widely flared conical sides and is freely carved on the The high-shouldered tapering body is covered overall with a thin veneer
interior with two boys amidst feathery foliate sprays, all under a of marbled dark brown and cream-color clay, all under a clear glaze.
transparent, pale blue-tinged glaze.Together with a carved Ding bowl,
9¬ in. (24.4 cm.) high
Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), of flared rounded form and with a metal-
bound rim, the interior is carved with a lotus spray and the bowl is
$40,000-60,000
covered inside and out with a crackled glaze of ivory tone.
8¿ in. (20.6 cm.); 7¡ in. (18.7 cm.) (2) PROVENANCE:
Ralph M. Chait, New York, by 1925.
$4,000-6,000 Eastern Art Museum.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 March 1953, lot 60.
PROVENANCE:
Qingbai bowl: The Hardy Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics
and Works of Art From the Sze Yuan Tang; Christie's, New York, 21 LITERATURE:
September 1995, lot 115. Chinese Art, Burlington Magazine, 1925 (advertisement).
Ding bowl: The Scheinmann Collection; Christie's, New York, 22
September 1995, lot 597. Marbling, known in Chinese as jiao tai (mixed clay), became a popular
decorative technique on ceramics of the Tang dynasty and continued
to be made throughout the Song-Jin period at a number of northern
宋 青白刻卷草童子紋盌 kilns, including the Kuangshan kilns in Jiaozuo and the Dangyangyu
kilns in Xiuwu county, both in northern Henan province. The marbled
appearance could be achieved either by combining clays of different
colors when making the vessel, or by slicing the twisted and kneaded
clay into thin layers that would be laminated to the surface of the
vessel, as is the case with the present vase. In either case the piece
was afterwards covered with a transparent glaze. Both marbling
techniques required considerable skill on the part of the potter.
A fragment of a marbled pillow from the Gong Xian kilns, Henan
province, which shows the construction of thin marbled veneer on
a plain pottery underlayer, was included in the Exhibition of Ceramic
Finds from Ancient Kilns in China, University of Hong Kong, 1981, p.
110, no. 37.

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