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A WHITE-GLAZED TREFOIL-FORM BOX AND A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED CUP excavation of the Sui tomb of Yuan Wei and his wife]’, Kaogu
COVER SUI DYNASTY yu wenwu / Archaeology and Cultural Relics, no. 1, 2012, fig.
LIAO DYNASTY Japanese wood box (3) 5, no. 1, together with three smaller cups, nos 2 and 4; and
(2) Diameter 4¾ in., 12.1 cm another, excavated from the dated tomb (607) of Zhang Lin
and his wife in Chang’an district, Xi’an, now preserved in the
Length 3⅞ in., 9.8 cm Xi’an Institute of Cultural Relics Preservation, illustrated in
Covered in a delicate white glaze, the present lot is closely PROVENANCE Zhang Bai, Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji / Complete Collection
related to a molded example in the Museum of East Asian Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo. of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2008, pl. 14. Very
Art, Bath (accession no. BATEA:38). Compare also two Remarkable for its large size, this cup is a rare example of the few related cups of comparable size have appeared on the
related examples, one in the Sir Alan Barlow Collection, high quality white wares produced during the Sui dynasty. market. Two sold in our London rooms, one from the George
housed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (accession no. Related cups have been discovered from Sui dynasty tombs, de Menasce Collection, 29th March 1977, lot 231, and the
319 LI1301.314), and another exhibited in The Hans Popper but are mostly of smaller size. See, for example, a group other, 13th December 1983, lot 137. One sold at Christie’s
Collection of Oriental Art, Center of Asian Art and Culture, of three closely related cups attributed to the Xing kilns, New York, 14th September 2011, lot 1457, and another sold
San Francisco, 1973, cat. no. 96. excavated from the tomb of Li Yu, dated to the year 605, recently in these rooms, 23rd March 2022, lot 298.
in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, published in Shaanxi Provincial
$ 8,000-12,000 Institute of Archaeology, ‘Xi’an nanjiao sui liyu mu fajue ⊖ $ 15,000-20,000
jianbao [A brief report on the excavation of the Sui tomb of
遼 白釉花式蓋盒 Li Yu in the southern rural of Xi’an]’, Wenwu, no. 7, 2009, fig. 隋 白釉大盃
28; and two other cups excavated from the tomb of Yuan Wei
and his wife, dated 601, in Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, 來源
published in Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
and Xianyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, 繭山龍泉堂，東京
‘Sui yuanwei fufu mu fajue jianbao [A brief report on the

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A WHITE-GLAZED BOX AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
Japanese wood box (4)
Diameter 4½ in., 11.4 cm
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000

北宋 白釉蓋盒

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