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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
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A RARE WHITE WARE LION-
HANDLED EWER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
7æ in. (19.7 cm.) high, cloth box
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Christie's New York, 26 March 2003, lot 206.

A very similar early white ware ewer of
comparable size is illustrated in the J.J. Lally
& Co. exhibition catalogue, Chinese Porcelain
and Silver in the Song Dynasty, New York,
2002, no. 2, where comparisons are made
with smaller versions of the form in the Freer
Gallery, Washington D.C.; the Hans Popper
Collection; the Carl Kempe Collection; the
Meiyintang Collection; and the Asian Art
Museum, San Francisco.
The fine white body of this ewer and the
reduction-fired glaze are both similar to those
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of 10 -century wares from the Ding kiln.
Early Ding wares were fired in a reducing
atmosphere, resulting in the 'cold' white color,
as seen on this ewer, in contrast to the later
Ding wares, fired in an oxidized atmosphere,
which have a warm ivory tone. Interestingly,
the spout on the current ewer shares its
unusual dragon-head form with Ding ware
kundika vessels excavated from both the
Jingzhi and Jingzhongyuan Temple pagodas
at Dingxian. These pagoda deposits are dated
to AD 977 and AD 995, respectively. See
Treasures from the Underground Palaces,
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1997, nos. 59
and 87; and Zhongguo meishu quanji; gongyi
meishu bian 2; taoci zhong, Shanghai, 1988,
p. 108, no. 119.
Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
高曼珍藏
808 唐 白瓷龍首Ờ把執ૐ
A RARE PAIR OF SMALL MOLDED WHITE-GLAZED 高曼珍藏 Ϝ源
‘LOTUS’ DISHES 遼 白釉模印蓮式盤ˏ對 紐☼ωૈ得，2003年3月26日，拍品編號206
LIAO DYNASTY (AD 907-1125) Ϝ源
紐☼蘇富比，2002年9月19日，拍品編號60
5¡ in. (13.5 cm.) diam.
$12,000-18,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 19 September 2002, lot 60.

Compare the similar white stoneware dish dated to the Liao dynasty,
10 -11 century, but with five petals rather than six, illustrated by R.
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Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London,
1994, vol. I, p. 195, no. 339. Another similar white stoneware dish with
five petals, in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco, is illustrated by W. Watson in Tang and Liao Ceramics,
London, 1984, p. 136, no. 115, where it is described as Xingzhou ware,
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early 10 century.
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