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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER
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A SMALL BROWN-GLAZED JARLET
LIAO DYNASTY (AD 907-1125)
Of a compressed globular form, the jarlet is incised with wavy cord
markings below fve impressed ‘fsh roe’ rings evenly spaced below
two grooved bands, all covered with a rich chestnut glaze pooling
to a darker color in the recesses and continuing over the foot ring
onto the base.
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) diam.
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE
Fritz Low-Beer & Company, New York, March 1949.
Myron and Pauline Falk Collection, New York, no. 39.
Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 385.
EXHIBITED
New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America,
Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty: North and South of the Great Wall, 15
March-28 May,1973. 1023
LITERATURE
M. Yutaka, Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty: North and South of the
Great Wall, New York, 1973, no. 60, p. 86.
遼 醬釉繩紋小罐

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER
1024
A HENAN RUSSET-STRIPED BLACKISH-BROWN
GLAZED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The shallow bowl has straight sides, and the interior is covered
with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze decorated with stripes of
matte russet glaze, which pools in a line on the exterior where the
body tapers towards the knife-cut foot.
3√ in. (9.9 cm.) diam.
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE
The Falk Collection II, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art;
Christie’s New York, 21 September 2001, lot 442.
Christie’s New York, 13-14 September 2012, lot 1396.

A very similar russet-striped bowl, but of smaller size (8 cm.
diam.) from the Linyushanren Collection was sold at Christie’s
New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1705.
北宋/金 黑釉鐵鏽斑直壁盞
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