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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION A similar qingbai ewer and cover, together with a deep bowl with petal-lobed
sides, is illustrated in Porcelain Collected by Anhui Province Museum, Beijing,
1122 2002, pp. 62-3, pl. 47, where it is dated Northern Song dynasty. Unlike the
A QINGBAI EWER AND COVER petal-lobed foot of the present ewer, the published ewer has a plain foot, and
the handle is attached directly to the shoulder rather than the side of the neck
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY as on the present ewer. This form of attachment necessitated the small cut-
out area in the rim of the cover so that it could ft over the handle.
The body is potted with eight vertical lobes that rise to an overlapping lotus
petal collar at the base of the trumpet neck, and a leaf is incised at the base 北宋 青白釉刻蓮紋瓜棱壺
of the curved spout and strap handle. The cover is surmounted by a Buddhist
lion fnial and has a small rectangular cut-out fanked by two tiny holes on
one side to ft over the handle. The ewer and cover are covered overall with a
transparent, pale aqua glaze.
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 27 September 2000.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.

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