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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. RALPH C.
MARCOVE, NEW YORK

1509

A STRAW-GLAZED OVOID JAR AND
COVER
SUI-TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-8TH CENTURY

The jar of ovoid form is heavily potted with
a short neck and lipped rim, and covered
overall with a white slip under a fnely
crackled clear glaze that falls short of the
fat base to expose the fne white ware, the
similarly glazed, domed cover with everted
rim is surmounted by a bud-form fnial.

10 in. (25.5 cm.) high including cover

$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE

Dr. Ralph C. Marcove (1929-2001)
Collection, New York, before 1999.

隋/唐 白釉蓋罐

1509

1510

A LONGQUAN CELADON EWER
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-
1368)

The globular body is surmounted by a short
neck and everted rim, and has a slightly
curved spout on one side opposite a C-form
handle. The ewer is covered overall with a
glaze of pale olive-green tone. Together with
a small Longquan celadon bowl and a cover,
Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), the
sides of the bowl and the domed cover are
carved with a band of overlapping petals, and
both are covered overall in a crackled glaze
of pale blue-green tone.

Ewer 5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) high; bowl and cover

4º in. (10.8 cm.) diam. (cover) (2)

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Bowl and cover: S. Marchant & Son, London.
Both: Christie’s New York, 25 March 1998,
lot 162 (part).
Dr. Ralph C. Marcove (1929-2001)
Collection, New York.

南宋/元 龍泉青釉執壺

1510

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