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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED EWER The form of this ewer, with its angular profile, 宋 白釉執壺
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279) is modelled after metalworks that entered 壺直口，折肩，圓腹，下部內收，足微外撇。
China from Central Asia. Compare to a Ding
The ewer has a deep, rounded body raised ewer of very similar shape, but with carved 肩腹交接處有弦紋一道，整器施白釉，積釉處
on a flared foot, incised with single lines decorations in the Musée Guimet in Paris, 略泛藍。
above and below the sharp edge of the dating to late 10th century to early 11th century,
canted shoulder, with a tall, slender curved illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Song, vol. 12, 來源
Tokyo, 1977, pl. 133. Ewers of this form were
spout set opposite a looped strap handle also fired at the Yaozhou kilns. Refer to a 東京繭山龍泉堂
attached to the narrow cylindrical neck, Yaozhou ewer of similar form, dating to early 日本私人收藏，入藏於 1980 年代或以
covered with a translucent, pale blue tinged 11th century, formerly in the Charles B. Hoyt 前
glaze pooling to darker tone in the recesses. Collection, now in the Museum of Fine Arts,
7 ¬ in. (19.3 cm.) high, Japanese wood box Boston, illustrated ibid., pl. 184; and another 展覽
Yaozhou example in the Yaozhou Museum in
HK$250,000-350,000 Shaanxi, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: 和泉市久保惣記念美術館，《注器》，
Yaozhouyao, 1985, pl. 17.
US$33,000-45,000 和泉市，1986 年，頁 53，圖版 94 號。
福山城博物館，《中國古陶磁名品 70
PROVENANCE 選》，1989 年 10 月 21 日 -11 月 26 日，
Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo 編號 27
A Japanese private collection, acquired in
the 1980s or before
EXHIBITED
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts ,
Sosoku Utsuwa [Pouring Vessles], Izumi,
1986, p. 53, cat no. 94 Fukuyama Castle
Museum, 70 Selected
Masterpieces of
Chinese Porcelain, 21
Oct to 26 Nov 1989,
p.27, no. 27

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