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 PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTOR  唐 / 五代   邢窰白釉大盌
 A RARE AND LARGE ‘XING’ CONICAL BOWL
 TANG DYNASTY / FIVE DYNASTIES  來源
 Gustaf Lindberg (1887-1961) 收藏
 Diameter 8½ in., 21.7 cm
 倫敦蘇富比1978年12月12日,編號115
 PROVENANCE  Michael Weisbrod Chinese Art,紐約
 Collection of Gustaf Lindberg (1887-1961).   出版
 Sotheby’s London, 12th December 1978, lot 115.   Gustaf Lindberg,〈Porcellanous Ware - Porcelain:
 Michael Weisbrod Chinese Art, New York.
 Remarks Concerning Some Early Ceramic Wares of
 China〉,《民族》,1947年,圖1 (中)
 LITERATURE
 Gustaf Lindberg, ‘Porcellanous Ware - Porcelain: Remarks   Gustaf Lindberg,〈Hsing Yao: Attempt at an
 Concerning Some Early Ceramic Wares of China’, Ethnos,   Interpretation of the T’ang Hsing Chou Ware〉,《東方
 1947, fig. 1 (center).    藝術》,1950年春,圖1 (中) 及4 (上)
 Gustaf Lindberg, ‘Hsing Yao: Attempt at an Interpretation of   Gustaf Lindberg,〈Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao: An
 the T’ang Hsing Chou Ware’, Oriental Art, Spring 1950, figs 1   Investigation and Description of some Chinese T’ang
 (center) and 4 (top).    and Sung White Porcelain in the Carl Kempe and Gustaf
 Gustaf Lindberg, ‘Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao: An Investigation
 and Description of some Chinese T’ang and Sung White   Lindberg Collections〉,《遠東古物博物館館刊》,期
 Porcelain in the Carl Kempe and Gustaf Lindberg Collections’,   25,1952年,圖版7-8
 Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, vol. 25,
 1952, pls 7-8.
 The Xing kilns in Lincheng and Neiqiu counties of Hebei
 province were probably the most successful producers of
 white wares in terms of the material used, potting, glazing
 and firing of pieces during the Tang dynasty. Xing wares were
 likened to silver by the contemporary elite. According to
 Regina Krahl, the quality of wares produced at the Xing kilns
 increased substantially from the mid-Tang period onward,
 with the body becoming more porcellaneous and the glaze
 achieving a very smooth quality with a distinct blue tinge. See
 Regina Krahl, ‘Bright as Silver, White as Snow  - White Wares
 of North and South China’, in Bright as Silver. White as Snow.
 Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty,
 Hong Kong, 1998, pp 15-24. The current bowl is of unusually
 large size, with a thick attractive creamy-white glaze, and
 preserved in very good condition.
 Gustaf Lindberg (1887-1961) was a peer of fellow early
 Chinese ceramic connoisseurs King Gustaf VI Adolf of
 Sweden and Carl Kempe.

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