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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION The present ewer is not only charming, but also very rare, and very few
examples appear to have been published. However, a Ding ewer in the form
1136 of a boy riding a chicken excavated in 1971 from Chenmin, Dingxian, Hebei
A GREEN-GLAZED ‘BOY AND PHOENIX’ EWER province, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji (Compendium of Chinese
Ceramics), vol. 9, Dingyao, Japan, 1981, no. 97. Another Ding ewer in the form
NORTHERN SONG OR LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY of a boy riding a duck is illustrated in Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth:
The ewer is molded in the shape of a boy seated on the back of a phoenix, Chinese Treasures of the Royal Ontario Museum, Hong Kong, 1992, p. 61,
the fower-form mouth rising from the top of the tail. It is covered overall with pl. 28 (right).
a green glaze, except for the interior of the foot, and the foot ring has three
spur marks. The present ewer can also be compared to a group of Liao ewers which
7º in. (18.4 cm.) high are formed as a hybrid mythical beasts, with a human head and the body
of a fsh or bird. See, for example, a white-glazed ewer with a man’s head
$20,000-30,000 and a dragon-fsh body with wings, excavated in 1976 from a Liao dynasty
site at Wulantaohai, Balinzuoqi, Inner Mongolia, and illustrated in Complete
PROVENANCE Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 4, Beijing, 2008, no. 60.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 25 February 2005. 北宋或遼 綠釉童子騎鳳壺
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.
EXHIBITED
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private
Collection, 28 March-16 April 2005, no. 43.
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