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A RARE DING SLIP-DECORATED 'LOTUS' BOTTLE VASE
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
The pear-shaped body is decorated with large dark brown lotus blossoms Two slightly smaller Ding vases from the Northern Song dynasty with
amongst leafy tendrils, all below stylized petals to the trumpet-shaped neck the same distinctive sgrafiato technique of brown against white and with
with white combed decoration. combed white decoration include the brown slip-decorated Ding vase
11⅝ in. (29.5 cm) high (16.3 cm. high) in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington illustrated in Oriental
£15,000-20,000 US$20,000-26,000 Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol 9., Tokyo, 1981, pl.11; and the
€18,000-23,000 brown-slip-decorated Ding vase (18.4 cm. high) sold at Sotheby's Hong
Kong, 20 March 2002, lot 102.
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Professor Ferdinando Cappelletti, acquired in Rome in the late
1970s.

宋 定窯白釉剔褐花蓮紋長頸瓶

來源:羅馬藏家 Ferdinando Cappelletti 教授珍藏,
1970年代末購自羅馬

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