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A YAOZHOU CARVED ‘LOTUS’ EWER 北宋 耀州窯青釉刻蓮紋執壺
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
壺身斜折肩，肩上流劃幾何紋，腹微鼓下收，圈足略撇，肩左側有管狀
The ewer is carefully potted with a globular body raised on a 流，右側有曲形柄，柄上印有菱形幾何紋，壺身剔刻卷葉蓮花一周，通
spreading foot and deeply carved and incised around the sides with 體飾溫潤晶瑩之淡青釉。壺內、圈足則無釉。
a pair of blossoming lotus branches, beneath the gently sloping
shoulder between raised edges and incised with curvilinear lines. 來源
Opposite to a curved spout is a strap handle impressed with a 養德堂珍藏
lozenge diaper pattern and affixed to the cylindrical neck. It is
covered overall with a glaze of pale sea-green colour. The interior 著錄
and the foot rim are unglazed. 國立歷史博物館，《中國八代陶瓷精品展》，台北，1987
7 æ in. (19.7 cm.) high, box 年，頁30
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-77,000 此類耀州窯在古代文獻中又被稱為東窯。在康蕊君所著之《玫茵堂中國
陶瓷》，第1冊，頁226則描述在銅川市黃堡鎮的耀州窯遺址找到與本品
LITERATURE
The National Museum of History, The Exhibition of Chinese 相似之耀州窯器。而近年學術界也撰文描述在五代地層中發現與本品相
Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, Taipei, 1987, p.30 似類型的青釉執壺殘件，見陜西考古研究所，《五代黃堡窯址》，
北京，1997年，頁64及67，彩色圖版5、29及30號，圖1及2；及劉遵
This ewer with its decoration finely cut in high relief may be the rare 義，《耀州窯》，西安，1992年，頁56。
type of Yaozhou ware previously referred to as Dongyao or ‘Eastern’
ware. In a discussion of Yaozhou wares in Chinese Ceramics from the
Meiyintang Collection, London, 1996, vol. 1, p. 226, Regina Krahl notes
that ‘vessels of this type have now been discovered at the Yaozhou
kiln sites at Huangbaozhen, Tongchuan county.’ Sherds of ewers of
this type had been recovered from the Five Dynasties stratum at the
Yaozhou kiln sites, see Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology,
Wudai Huangbao yaozhi, Beijing, 1997, pp. 64 and 67, col pls. 5, 29, and
30, figs. 1 and 2, and another example illustrated in Liu Zunyi, Yaozhou
yao [Yaozhou Kiln], Xi’an, 1992, p. 56.

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