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847 A BLACK-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
The vase has a pear-shaped body that rises to a tall, slightly flared
neck with lipped rim, and is covered with a rich brownish-black
glaze suffused with bluish-tan areas around the sides and ending
in a sweeping line above the foot.
13¬ in. (34.6 cm.) high, cloth box
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4857.
The elongated pear shape of this vase was produced at
various kilns in Northern China during the Song dynasty.
It appears that black-glazed examples are particularly rare.
For a stoneware vase of this form with black ‘oil-spot’ glaze
see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, pp. 502-503, no. 1508. See, also, a
plain Yaozhou celadon vase of a similar form from a Japanese
collection illustrated in the catalogue Song Ceramics, Asahi
Shimbun, Tokyo, 1999, p. 54, no. 17, and a Junyao vase of
similar form in the Percival David Collection, now in the
British Museum, illustrated in Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics
from the Percival David Foundation, Los Angeles, 1989, p. 38,
no. 14.

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848 A RUSSET-PAINTED BLACK-GLAZED 北宋 金ǭ十Հ世紀ǭ
PILLOW 黑釉鐵鏽花卷草紋須彌座式枕
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
Of elongated octagonal form, the waisted pillow is molded on the Ϝ源
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interrupted by columns at the angles and two figures at the back.
The slightly concave top is painted in iron-rust brown with a
feathery floral motif. The flat base is pierced with two vent holes.
7¡ in. (18.8 cm.) long, cloth box
$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4852.
Russet-painted black-glazed pillows are rare and it appears that
the form of this pillow, raised on a waisted base, may be unique.
Compare a black-glazed bean-shaped pillow painted with two
large Chinese characters in rust-brown illustrated in Chinese
Ceramic Pillows from the Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Museum of
Oriental Ceramics ed., Osaka, 1984, cat. no. 121, p. 156, where
it is dated 12th century.

A black-glazed pottery pillow with figural base dated to the
Jin dynasty, in the Capital Museum Collection, is illustrated by
Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection
of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 1, Beijing, 2008, no.
70. See, also, a figural pillow covered in a dark-brown glaze that
was included in the exhibition, The Silk Road, Treasures of Tang
China, The Empress Place, Singapore, 1991, p. 140. (another view)

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