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A YUE ANIMAL-FORM VESSEL
WESTERN JIN DYNASTY,
3RD-4TH CENTURY
The vessel is hollow-molded as a mythical beast,
bixie, crouching on four small clawed feet, with
combed markings delineating the beard, mane
and back and the applied tail molded with curls. A
tubular aperture rises from the animal’s back, and
the beast is covered overall with a thin pale olive
glaze, pooling to green in the recesses.
7¿ in. (18 cm.) long, cloth box
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Hong Kong prior to 1989.
This type of stoneware beast-form vessel appears
to have been made at the Yue kilns in varying
sizes; this fgure being one of the larger sizes.
Similarly modeled examples were included in the
Special Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo
National Museum, 1994, nos. 58 and 59. The
exact use of these vessels is still being debated.
西晉 越窯青釉辟邪
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A XING SHALLOW DISH
FIVE DYNASTIES (AD 907-960)
The shallow rounded sides rise to a slightly fared
rim shaped as fve bracket-lobed petals, and the
dish is covered in a creamy-white glaze stopping in
an irregular line above the foot.
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam.
$6,000-8,000
五代 邢窯花口盤
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