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PROPERTY FROM XANADU GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO
3314
A PAIR OF GREEN GLAZED POTTERY VASES
Liao dynasty
Each of inverted pear form with raised string bands encircling the area
above the foot and along the conical neck topped with a bird’s head
supporting a floriform cupped rim, the grass green glaze covering
portions of the interior and stopping along the lower body supported on a
wide foot and recessed base (one vase broken, re-stuck and retouched).
15 1/2in (39.5cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000
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3315
A CIZHOU SLIP-DECORATED PILLOW
Jin dynasty
The slanted top of modified kidney-bean profile painted in black on a
white slip ground with a tiger, the exterior walls with a leaf scroll pattern, Jiangxi Province is published in Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and
the white slip stopping unevenly along the lower walls and the unglazed
buff colored ground stamped Zhang jia zao ( chips, cracks, wear).
10 1/8in (25.7cm) greatest width
$2,000 - 3,000
3316
TWO CELADON GLAZED CONTAINERS
Southern Song/Yuan dynasty
The first a deep bowl lined by a simple band of flowers and leaves
beneath the pale gray-green glaze continuing onto exterior walls,
stopping unevenly above the foot ring, the roughly finished foot and
recessed base burnt a pale buff hue (foot chipped, kiln sand adhering
to well); the second a simple jar comprised by a tall neck above an
ovoid body tapering inward above a concave base, the glaze on the
exterior walls a very pale green qingbai type crazed by an extensive
web of russet-stained lines from burial (lacking cover, glaze degraded)
6 5/8in (16.8cm) diameter of dish
5 3/8in (13.6cm) height of jar
$1,000 - 1,500
3317
TWO QINGBAI BOWLS WITH FISH AND WAVE ROUNDELS
Southern Song dynasty
The larger bowl displaying six raised ribs rising on the curving interior
walls and two fish swimming in waves on the circular floor rendered
with combed and carved lines, the craze-filled glaze of rich blue-green
hue (chip, hairline crack); the smaller bowl similarly marked with six
raised ribs on the curving walls and molded in relief with a roundel of
fish and water waves, the pale blue-green glaze also displaying a web
of craze line (firing cracks).
7 1/4 and 6 3/8in (18.6 and 16.2cm) diameters
$1,500 - 2,500
A bowl in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, incised with
a double-fish pattern and molded with raised ribs similar to the first
example in this lot, is published in Stacey Pierson (ed.), Qingbai Ware:
Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, 2002, cat. no. 14,
pp. 52-53 (as thirteenth century, 17.4cm diameter).
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3318
TWO QINGBAI GLAZED BOWLS
Southern Song dynasty
The larger bowl thinly molded with a flared rim, deep curving well
and raised on a tall foot surrounding a shallowly recessed base, the
interior carved and combed with a design of baby boys crawling amid
peony sprays, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except
a pale russet-burnt circle on the recessed base (cracked, chipped);
the smaller bowl displaying a shallow curving well, incised line on
the outside edge of the rim and raised on a short foot ring, the pale
blue-green glaze applied everywhere except the rim (star crack, rim
possibly reduced in size).
7 3/4in and 6 5/8in (19.5 and 16.8cm) diameters
$2,000 - 3,000
The larger bowl with a carved and combed pattern of baby boys
amid flowering foliage is known in a number of museum collections.
One example, with baby boys amid more stylized flowering branches,
excavated in 1973 from a tomb dated to 1201 in Yihuang County,
Yuan Dynasties, 1998, cat. no. 65, p. 69 (20.5cm diameter).
3319
TWO MOLDED QINGBAI BOWLS
Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th/14th century
The first imitating Dingyao, its wide curving well raised on a short,
narrow foot, molded in a raised-relief leiwen band above alternating
phoenix and flowering peony sprays and a goose in flight across the
floor, the pale greenish-white glaze applied everywhere except the rim
(glaze degraded and stained); the second molded with a leiwen band
above overlapping lotus petals while two fish swim amid waves across
the flat floor, all beneath a glaze of straw hue that also covers portions
of the exterior walls between copper bands encircling the mouth and
foot (glaze degraded).
7 1/2 and 5 1/2in (19 and 14m) diameter
$1,000 - 1,500
3320
TWO YINGQING GLAZED BOWLS
Song/Yuan dynasty
The first, thickly molded with a flared rim and deep curving well, the
characteristic pale blue-green glaze covering the well and exterior
walls but leaving the canted rim, foot pad and recessed base unglazed
(old chip, rim polished); the second of slightly large size and more
thinly molded, its exterior walls carved with two tiers of lotus leaves
while the well is molded with a spray of stylized flowers, the glaze on
the interior and exterior walls fired to a pale straw hue but leaving the
rim, foot pad and recessed base without glaze, the base inscribed in
ink with two characters reading nan [wei] (rim polished).
5 7/8 and 7in (15 and 17.5cm) diameters
$1,200 - 1,800