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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION

A QINGBAI ‘LOTUS’ CENSER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

the deep rounded sides uted to the exterior,
rising to a slightly waisted neck encircled with a
narrow ridged band to a delicately lobed everted
rim, raised on an elaborate stepped pedestal
arranged in three tiers of petal- uted collars,
covered overall with a translucent pale blue glaze
pooling to darker tones in the recesses
Height 4½ in., 11.4 cm

PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1990s.

$ 10,000-15,000

Ralph M Chait Galleries 1990

635

636

PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION

A CARVED QINGBAI ‘DAYLILY’
VASE
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

the ovoid body supported on a ared foot,
surmounted by a cylindrical neck opening into
a wide, six-lobed ower-shaped rim with down-
turned petal tips, the body freely incised with

oral blooms on lea ng stems, the petals de ned
with combed details, the shoulder and neck
encircled by double- llets, the interior of the
neck applied with radiating lines of slip, covered
overall in a vitreous pale blue glaze pooling at the
recesses, the base unglazed revealing the bu -
colored body
Height 7 in., 17.8 cm

PROVENANCE

China House of Arts, New York, 1980-90s.

A pair of the same form and decoration from
the Capelo Collection was sold in our London
rooms 5th November 2014, lot 71. Compare
also an example with a taller foliated neck, in
the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated in Stacey
Pierson (ed.), Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain
of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002,
pl. 71 and a more ornate example in John Ayers,
Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva,
1999, vol. 1, pl. 57.

$ 20,000-30,000

China House of Arts 1980 1990 636

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