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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
1072
A CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL For a Ding ‘lotus’ bowl carved with a similar design, but with foliate rim, see
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127) Beyond Compare: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic; Christie’s
Hong Kong, 26 November 2018, lot 8005. Another Ding bowl of this design
The bowl has gently rounded sides rising from a low small ring foot. The
with foliate rim is illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co. in The Collection of Dr. and
interior is carved with a large lotus flower borne on a leafy stem encircled by a
winding lotus stem issuing another blossom. The bowl is covered overall in a Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, New York, 2009, no. 40.
transparent ivory-tinged glaze pooling in the recesses.
8q in. (21.5 cm.) diam., cloth box 私́珍藏
٫宋ǎ定⒋白釉ח蓮紋盌
$50,000-70,000
Ϝ源
PROVENANCE: 紐☼ωૈ得
年 月 日
拍品編號
Christie's New York, 5 June 1986, lot 184.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
1071
A CARVED YUE CELADON CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
FIVE DYNASTIES PERIOD, 10TH CENTURY
The shallow domed cover is carved in relief with a scrolling peony spray.
The box and cover are covered overall with a pale olive-green glaze.
4√ in. (12.3 cm.) diam, cloth box
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1988.

Intended to contain precious substances and objects, Yue ware covered
boxes of this type were highly treasured in the ancient time. The boxes’
high status is reflected in the lavish decorations, among which the
relief carving such as that displayed on the current piece is the most
sophisticated and expensive technique. A Yue ware box decorated with
peony motif but with a ring of grooves surrounding the central roundel is
in the Art Institute of Chicago, and is illustrated by Yutaka Mino and K. R.
Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis
Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 132-133, no. 49. Compare, also, a fragment of a
similar Yue ware ‘peony’ box found at the Yue ware kilns in Shangyu Xian,
illustrated in ibid, p. 132, fig. 49b.
(another view)

私人珍藏
五代 十世紀 越窯青釉刻牡丹紋蓋盒
來源:
入藏於香港, 1988年
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