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1151 The octagonal sides and carved decoration of the present ewer appear to
derive from metalwork. The faceted form in particular is a shape suited to
A VERY RARE AND UNUSUAL YUE OCTAGONAL EWER metalworking, but which would have presented a considerable challenge to
AND COVER the potter.
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
It is rare to fnd this form in Yue ware, although a related qingbai octagonal
The body is divided into eight panels by vertical raised ribs, with a large peony ewer is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 146,
carved on two adjacent panels on the two main sides, the remaining panels no. 426. Two related Yue ewers, one with a sketchily carved foral design
with single peony sprays, all between bands of lotus petals, interrupted by the which continues across vertical ribs and with a faring neck, and the
curved spout and S-shaped handle, and the cover is similarly shaped with six other with carved foral pattern and a lotus-petal fnial, are also illustrated
panels divided by raised ribs and surmounted by a double-fower-head fnial, Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, op. cit. p. 117, nos. 335 and 336.
all covered with a glossy clear glaze of greyish-green tone, the underside with
four spur marks. 北宋 越窯青釉牡丹紋八棱帶蓋執壺

7Ω in. (19 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Japan, acquired in the 1970s.

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