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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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