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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION The shape of this impressive ewer was popular in north China in the late 10th
and early 11th centuries, and ewers of similar form were made at a number
1135 of northern kilns. The sharp angle where the shoulder of the vessel meets
AN AMBER-GLAZED EWER AND COVER the sides, and the shape of the handle both suggest that this was originally a
metalwork form that was adapted for ceramics.
LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
The ewer has a rounded, lobed body rouletted with undulating bands below An amber-glazed ewer dated to the 10th century decorated with rouletted
the canted shoulder incised with a foliate scroll, and set with a tubular spout undulating lines around the body and with stamped fower-head design on
opposite the strap handle attached to the tall, cylindrical neck, and is covered the shoulder, but lacking the lobed body and with a phoenix head-shaped
with a fnely crackled glaze of yellow-amber color, while the base is covered spout, is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 11, Sui and T’ang Dynasties,
with a green glaze. The domed cover with galleried rim and large bud fnial is Tokyo, 1976, p. 279, no. 261. See, also, the amber-glazed ewer dated to the
similarly glazed. late 10th-early 11th century of similar proportions and of approximately the
10√ in. (27.5 cm.) high, cloth box same size, but with an undecorated rounded body, from the Falk Collection,
sold at Christie’s New York, 20 September 2001, lot 31.
$12,000-18,000
遼 黃釉劃花執壺
PROVENANCE

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 9 April 1999.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.