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A CARVED QINGBAI-GLAZED ‘BOYS’ BOWL A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY CAPARISONED CAMEL
Song Dynasty Tang dynasty
Well-potted with rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, the Standing four-square on a rounded rectangular base with neck and
interior freely incised and combed with two baby boys playing amidst head raised in a braying motion, wearing a saddle cloth around the
two stylized floral scrolls, the translucent light blue glaze covers inside humps with monster-mask bags between, under a sancai glaze of
and out, pulling at carved lines to enhance the design, the shallow ochre, green and straw but with the addition of a most attractive pale
foot partially glazed showing remains of kiln support from firing. green glaze to the throat, upper legs and hooves and parts of the
8in (21cm) diam; 3in (7.6cm) high mask saddle bags.
22 1/2in (57.3cm) high, wood stand
$2,000 - 3,000
$7,000 - 10,000
宋 青白劃花童嬉碗
唐 三彩陶駱駝
Provenance
Purchased at the Brimfield Antique Show, Massachusetts, 1982- Provenance
1985 Jeffrey Kaplan Collection, Washington D.C., 2000

出處： 出處
1982-1985 年間購自麻州 Brimfield 古玩展 華盛頓特區 Jeffrey Kaplan 藏，2000 年

A very similar Qingbai-glazed bowl of the same pattern is in the For a sancai-glazed braying camel with plain saddle cloth but
collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acquired in honor of similarly posed, see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 26 August 2021, lot
esteemed scholar and curator James C. Y. Watt, accession number 1054; for another with monster-mask saddle bags and the addition
2011.201. of horizontal supporting boards, see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 3
December 2021, lot 814.

For a larger comparable example with head raised in an evocative
bray, with the entire body and legs with a streaky amber brown glaze
with the tufts of hair on the forelegs and feet left unglazed, and also
wearing a saddle cloth with applied large packs with monster masks,
see Bonhams, New York, 21 September 2020, lot 194.

The result of Oxford Thermoluminescence test C200F33 (8
November 2000) is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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