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              A VERY RARE QINGBAI EWER, COVER,                           南宋ǎ青白釉帶Ờ鈕蓋執ૐ及溫盌
              AND WARMING BASIN
                                                                         Ϝ源
              SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
                                                                         山˗朔郎 	    年生
 珍藏 	據標籤
                                                                         平野۵陶軒
 東̺ 	據木盒標籤
              The ewer with hexalobed body is applied with a molded petal collar, and is set
                                                                         秦峰⁸珍藏
 神戶
 日本
              with a curved spout opposite the arched, strap handle. The cover is surmounted
              by a figure of a lion and is pierced with two holes for attachment. The deep basin   展覽
              is raised on a high foot molded with pendent overlapping petals and is divided   和泉市
 久Л惣紀念美術館
 Ǚ注器ǚ
     年  月  日
              into seven lobes, which are incised with stylized floral decoration. The ewer,
              cover and basin are covered overall with a translucent glaze of pale bluish tone.  ֨ḛ
                                                                         久Л惣紀念美術館
Ǘ注器ǘ
 和泉市
     年
 頁
              Ewer and cover: 9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, Japanese wood box   圖ḛ   號
              Basin: 6q in. (16.5 cm.) diam.                      (2)
                                                                         It is very rare to find a ewer that has survived alongside
              $40,000-60,000
                                                                         its corresponding basin. A Northern Song dynasty
                                                                         qingbai ewer with a very similar cover surmounted by
              PROVENANCE:                                                a seated lion, also with a lobed warming basin, was
              Yamashita Sakuro (b. 1908) Collection (according to label).  excavated in 2004 at Shangdang commune, Dantu
              Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo (according to label on box).         county, Zhenjiang city, and is illustrated in Zhongguo
              Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.                        chutu ciqi quanji - 7 – Jiangsu Shanghai (Complete
                                                                         Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 7,
              EXHIBITED:
                                                                         Beijing, 2008, no. 116. The Shangdang basin, however,
              Izumi, Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Sosogu utsuwa (Ewers),
                                                                         lacks the band of molded petals around the foot.
              10 October 1986.

              LITERATURE:
              Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Sosogu utsuwa (Ewers), Izumi, 1986, p. 62,
              no. 116.

































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