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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION VARIOUS PROPERTIES
958 ⱷ960
A SMALL QINGBAI WATER POT A CARVED QINGBAI `BOYS’ BOWL
SONG DYNASTY, 2ND HALF 11TH CENTURY SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl is covered overall in a clear crackled The thinly potted bowl has conical sides rising to the rim carefully notched at
glaze with a bluish tinge and the base has been left six points along the edge. The interior is carved with three boys playing amidst
unglazed to reveal the white body. flower scrolls. The bowl is covered overall with a transparent pale blue glaze.
3√ in. (8.5 cm.) wide, brocade box 7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$10,000-15,000 $20,000-40,000

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2004, lot 621. 南宋 青白釉葵刻嬰戲紋葵口盌
Although the Jingdezhen kilns in northern
Jiangxi province produced the greatest volume of
qingbai wares, other kilns in Jiangxi province as
well as kilns in the provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang,
Guangdong, and Fujian also produced their own
versions of this distinctive ware. Two similar
water pots were discovered in a tomb dated to
1087, along with forty other qingbai wares, in
Susong xian, Anhui province. See Wang Yeyou,
"Qiantan Suson xian jinian my chutu de Bei Song
yingqing ciqin," Jingdezhen Taoci 2, 1984:61, no.
6, fig. 1. Another example discovered at the Song
kilns in Fanchang county, is illustrated by Hu
958 Yueqian, 'Anhui Green-glazed Wares from the Sui
to Song Dynasties: Comparisons with Zhejiang
Wares', New Light on Chinese Yue and Longquan
Wares: Archaeological Ceramics Found in Eastern
and Southern Asia, A.D. 800-1400, Hong Kong,
1994, pl. 2. Other similar qingbai water pots
are illustrated in Porcelain Collected by Anhui
Province Museum, Beijing, 2002, p. 66, no. 50,
and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of
Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 110, no. 105.
See, also, the qingbai water pot sold at Christie's
New York, 30 March 2005, lot 306.

顯赫私人珍藏
宋 十一世紀下半葉 青白釉小水丞
來源:
紐約蘇富比, 2004 年 3 月 23 日, 拍品編號 621

PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST COLLECTION
959
A CARVED QINGBAI MEIPING
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The high-shouldered, tapering body is carved with
a band of peony scroll between a band of upright
petals below and a band of stylized clouds above,
all under a crackled glaze of pale blue-green tone
that continues over the short neck and molded rim
and falls just above the foot.
10¬ in. (27 cm.) high, brocade box
$6,000-8,000

美國西岸珍藏
南宋 青白釉刻纏枝蓮紋梅瓶
959

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