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Early Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Mark S. Pratt, 7223
Washington D.C. A small Yue ware jar with lotus petal decoration
Five Dynasties/early Northern Song dynasty
7222 Of compressed oval form with a flat inverted rim and a band of lotus
A Changsha ware celadon glazed jar with brown petals carved in delicate relief along the exterior walls that taper
and green dot decoration inward above an short foot ring, the thin layer of pale olive-green glaze
Tang dynasty exhibiting a dense web of minute craze lines and covering all surfaces
Of cylindrical form with a rolled rim and short neck on the rounded except the remains of seven kiln spurs on the foot pad.
shoulder also supporting a pair of loop handles, the pale greenish- 4 5/8in (11.5cm) diameter
brown glaze highlighted with dark iron and pale green dots around the $3,000 - 5,000
body and stopping irregularly above the unglazed concave base.
5 3/8in (13.8cm) high A Yue ware jar of similar shape and decoration from the highlands
$1,000 - 1,500 of Jambi Sumatra, one of many found in Indonesia is published in
ORIENTAL CERAMICS The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 3: Museum
For an excavated jar now in the Yangzhou Museum, of similar shape Pusat, Jakarta, 1982, color pl. 73, and discussed p. 170 (12.6cm
and glaze but larger in size and with more elaborate brown and green diameter, as Five Dynasties or Song dynasty). For another globular
dotted decoration, see Li Zhiyan and others, Chinese Ceramics form jar with similar lotus petal decoration, also as Yue ware from the
the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty, 2010, p. 233, plate Five dynasties or Early Song period, 10th century, see ORIENTAL
5.39 (29.8cm high, also as Tang dynasty). CERAMICS The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 10: Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, 1980, fig. 103 (10.4cm diameter); and a Yue ware shard
of a base with similar foot and remains of spur marks, incised with the
date Taiping wu-yin (978) from the same collection, fig. 106.
7224
Two molded qingbai bowls imitating Dingyao
Southern Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th/14th century
Each formed with a slightly flared rim, supported on a narrow and
low foot ring, the walls of each well encircled by a leiwen band
above paired phoenix birds separated by flowering peony sprays,
the floor on one filled with a lotus plant, and the other with a goose
in flight; the pale gray-green glaze layer stopping unevenly below
both sides of the rim.
7 5/8 and 7 3/8in (19.5 and 18.5cm) diameters
$6,000 - 8,000
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