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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION (another view)

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A DARK OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED EWER

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
The oviform body is scored with vertical triple-line bands and applied with bows with trailing ends ‘tied’ around the
base of the double spout and the double strap handle, and applied with a pair of small loops on the shoulder below the
tall neck that fares to the upright rim. The ewer is covered overall with a dark olive-green glaze.
7Ω in. (19.5 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York, before 1992.

LITERATURE

J. C. Koo ed., Born of Earth and Fire: Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, Baltimore, 1992, p. 73, no. 50.

The unusual decoration of the applied ‘tied bows’ found on this ewer is similar to that seen on a Northern Song
qingbai ewer on which the applied decoration forms four connected loops below the base of the spout, which is
illustrated in Porcelain Collected by Anhui Province Museum, Beijing, 2002, p. 61, pl. 46, where the decoration is
described as ‘butterfy design’. As with the present ewer, two small loops have been applied to the shoulder between
the spout and the handle.
北宋 褐綠釉貼花執壺

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