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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 695

A RARE MOLDED AMBER- GLAZED 'KALAVINKA' FLASK, LIAO DYNASTY
Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 USD

A RARE MOLDED AMBER-GLAZED 'KALAVINKA' FLASK
LIAO DYNASTY
遼 黃釉妙音鳥持蓮紋皮囊壺

modeled after a leather prototype, the pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot, and tapering to a cylindrical ribbed
spout, set to one side and applied with an arched crimped handle terminating in downturned lotus petals, the vessel molded and
incised on each side with a figure of a kalavinka with wings outstretched and hands holding lotus sprays, all under a rich amber
glaze stopping around the base to reveal the pale slip and buff pinkish clay

Height 9 in., 22.8 cm

Provenance
Hayashibara Museum, Okayama.

來源
林原美術館，岡山市

Exhibition
Ceramics of Liao Dynasty, formerly the Hayashibara Museum Collection, Tokyo, 2012, cat. no. 24.

展覽
《遼瓷集成•林原美術館旧蔵•遼時代陶磁コレクション》，東京，2012年，編號24

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