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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A SUPERB AND VERY RARE CARVED WHITE WARE EWER 重要私人珍藏
AND COVER 遼 白釉刻牡丹紋帶蓋執壺
LIAO DYNASTY (AD 916-1125)
來源:
The ewer is carved on the body with overlapping petals below a band of peony
sprays encircling the shoulder, which is set with an everted knife-cut spout 暫得樓胡惠春(1911-1995) 珍藏
opposite the strap handle. The ewer and cover are covered overall with a 出版:
transparent glaze.
Helen D. Ling及仇焱之, 《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》, 卷一, 香港, 1950年, 編號8
9 in. (22.5 cm.) high, hardwood stand and cloth box
$100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE:
The J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection.
LITERATURE:
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the
Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 8.
This rare and exquisite wine ewer is exceptional for its fine potting, beautiful
white porcelain body and the elegant carving of the peony spray on the
shoulder and the overlapping lotus petals on the lower body. A very similar
Liao white ware ewer, but with overlapping leaves or petals on the shoulder,
excavated from a tomb at Baitazi, Kazuo county, Liaoning province, and
now in the Lianing Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Complete Collection
of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China – 2 – Tianjin, Liaonin, Jilin, Heilongjing,
Beijing, 2008, no. 103, where it is attributed to the Longquanwu kiln, Beijing.
See, also, the white ware ewer and cover, together with a warming bowl and
a cup and cup stand of the same ware, dated to the Liao dynasty, late 10th
or early 11th century, included in the exhibition, Gilded Splendor - Treasures
from China's Liao Empire (907-1125), Asia Society and Museum, New York,
2006, pp. 340-41, no. 107 a-d. Also illustrated, p. 340, fig. 116, is a detail of
a mural in the tomb of Zhang Shiqing in Xuanhua, Hebei province, dated to
1116, which depicts an occasion and setting in which such a group of vessels
might have been used to serve wine. A Northern Song Ding ewer and cover
of similar form and carved on the lower body with overlapping lotus petals,
and with overlapping lotus petals on the shoulder, in the Liaoning Provincial
Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 9, Dingyao, Kyoto, 1981, no.
37.
(label on box)

The present ewer illustrated by H. D. Ling and E. T. Chow in Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 8.
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