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PROPERTY FROM THE YI LAN TANG
COLLECTION
2815

A RARE XING WHITE-
GLAZED FOUR-HANDLED
FLASK
FIVE DYNASTIES (907-960)
The flask is finely potted with an
elongated body indented on two sides,
below the four lug-handles each incised
with a cross motif, supported on a
spreading foot and rising to a columnar
neck below a flared mouth, applied to
the exterior with a clear glaze of a pale
ivory tone, stopping irregularly above
the foot revealing the fine, white body.
8 √ in. (22.6 cm.) high, box
HK$400,000-600,000
US$52,000-78,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong, 2007
Compare to three Xing white-glazed flasks
of similar form, also dating to the Five
Dynasties. The first is in the Shanghai
Museum Collection, the second in the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco Collection,
both illustrated in Xing Kiln of China,
Beijing, 2012, p. 378 and 399 respectively.
The third was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
3 June 2016, lot 674.
The result of Oxford Authentication
thermoluminescence test no. P107p21 (17
May 2007) is consistent with the dating of
this lot.

五代 邢窯白釉四繫穿帶壺

來源
2007 年購於香港
倚嵐堂珍藏
上海博物館和舊金山亞洲藝術博物館各藏一
件造型相似的邢窯四繫壺，同樣定年五代，
見《中國邢窯》，北京，2012 年，頁 378
及 399。香港蘇富比曾於 2016 年 6 月 3 日
拍賣一件，拍品 674 號。
此器經牛津熱釋光測年法檢測（測試編號
P107p21；2007 年 5 月 17 日），證實與本
圖錄之定年符合。

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