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CERAMICS
EARLY CERAMICS
6175 PROPERTY FROM A PACIFIC 6180
TWO PAINTED POTTERY TOMB NORTHWEST COLLECTOR A JIANYAO ‘HARE’S FUR’ TEA BOWL
FIGURES Song dynasty
The larger of Northern Qi style with a youthful 6178 Potted with steep sides rising to a finger
face framed by a hooded helmet, showing A GROUP OF PORCELAIN WATER groove below the mouth rim, covered inside
remains of black pigment and white gesso; DROPPERS and out with a rich black glaze finely streaked
the smaller a Tang style groom wearing The first of Song/Yuan qingbai ware and with narrow ‘hare’s fur’ markings, pooling
a peaked bonnet, the surfaces showing domed teapot shape, molded in relief with a thickly above the foot revealing the dark
remains of white gesso, carmine and black leaf scroll pattern on a field of raised bosses, grey-brown fabric.
pigments (both with surfaces soiling, chips). the pale blue-green glaze stopping unevenly 4 5/8in (11.8cm) diameter
10 3/4 and 9 1/2in (27.4 and 24cm) high above the flat base (spout retouched);
the second, Qing dynasty, molded with a $1,000 - 1,500
$600 - 800 conjoined peach, pomegranate and hand
citron to form the Three Abundances, the Provenance
PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO celadon-tinged glaze stopping short of the flat Collection of Jerry Lamb, Portland, Oregon,
ESTATE, COLLECTION FORMED PRIOR base (chipped); together with a rectangular acquired 1 October 2003
TO 1970S brick-shaped water dropper of possible Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield
Korean origin covered with a pale blue-green
CERAMICS 6176 glaze and flat, unglazed base (chipped). [3] PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
3 1/8, 4 and 2 3/8in (8, 10 and 6cm) long
EARLY CERAMICS TWO PAINTED POTTERY TOMB $1,000 - 1,500 6181
MODELS
Lots 6175-6205 The first a gray pottery horse head, Han A QINGBAI PORCELAIN TEA BOWL
Dynasty, with remains of carmine pigment;
Song dynasty
the second, Tang dynasty, a graceful female Provenance The conical form bowl raised on a tall foot,
dancer wearing a dress with long, narrow Collection of Brooks and Dorothy Cofield the interior walls incised with a dissolved leaf
sleeves, one flinging into the air to the right of and flower pattern, the exterior with a band
her elaborate double-winged coiffure above Teapot shaped water dropper: of overlapping petals visible beneath the pale
her delicate features, some details washed Collection of Hung Yu, Tacoma, Washington and glossy blue-green glaze (chips to foot
and heightened in black, white and orange Crane Gallery, Seattle, Washington, acquired rim).
(arms broken and re-stuck); the second a 16 July 2014 4 1/8in (10.5cm) diameter
gray pottery horse head with remains of Pomegranate water dropper:
carmine pigment. acquired from a Portland antique store, 2005
6in (5.3cm) height of gray pottery horse head Rectangular water dropper: $1,000 - 1,500
10 1/4in (26cm) height of dancing figure estate and personal collection of a Portland
antique dealer Provenance
$1,000 - 1,500 Private Collection of Ken Shores, acquired ex-Cunliffe Collection
2006
acquired from Bonhams & Butterfields, San
Provenance Francisco, 30 April 2007, sale 14801, lot
3285
Dancing figure: 6179
acquired in San Francisco, 17 May 1965 TWO QINGBAI PORCELAIN
Horse head: CONTAINERS 6182
acquired in Carmel, 1 May 1965 Song dynasty TWO EARLY CERAMICS
The first a wide mouthed bowl with an 12th-14th century
overlapping lotus leaf pattern carved on the The first a Yaozhou bowl molded with a flared
PROPERTY FROM THE PORTLAND exterior walls, the rim and pad of the short rim, centered with a central peony flower
ART MUSEUM, PORTLAND, OREGON, foot ring left unglazed and the remaining and further flower heads borne on leafy vine
SOLD TO BENEFIT THE MUSEUM surfaces showing a pale blue-green glaze scrolls along the interior walls under the olive
ACQUISITION FUND (glaze degraded); the second a stem bowl green glaze that continues onto the exterior
with a flared rim, a peony flower and leaf scroll walls and portions of the recessed base
6177 design loosely carved and combed across the within the unglazed foot (glaze degraded);
A PAINTED POTTERY MODEL OF A interior walls beneath a pale blue-green glaze the second a Ding dish impressed with a
HORSE that continues on the exterior and portions of key-fret meander and intricately worked
Tang dynasty the deeply recessed base (chips, cracks). flower and fruit band along the curving walls
The steed modeled in mid-stride with its right 4 and 5in (10 and 12.7cm) diameter surrounding a central floral roundel, covered
front leg raised, its head turned to the left overall with a straw colored glaze except for
against a gust of wind that has blown the $1,500 - 2,500 the dense gray fabric exposed along the rim
long mane to the same side and caught the (repaired).
edges of the saddle blanket, the remaining Provenance 4 1/2in (11.5cm) diameter of bowl
legs attached to a low rectangular base and Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield 7 1/4in (18.5cm) diameter of dish
the surfaces showing traces of color (tail off,
extensively repaired). Bowl with a lotus leaf pattern: $1,200 - 1,800
22in (56cm) long Cyrus & Mildred Churchill Estate
Concordia House Collection, Moline, Illinois
$600 - 800 Jackson’s Auction, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 17-18
July 2007, lot 779
Stem bowl:
ex Warren E. Cox Collection, New York
Cyrus & Mildred Churchill Estate
Concordia House Collection, Moline, Illinois
Jackson’s Auction, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 17-18
July 2007, lot 779

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