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862 A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN
PEAR-SHAPED VASE,
YUHUCHUNPING
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH–11TH CENTURY
The vase has a tapering ovoid body rising to the slender,
waisted neck and flared mouth rim, and is covered in
a clear glaze of very pale ivory tone that ends unevenly
above the foot. The base is inscribed with two characters
in black ink possibly reading zhou X.
10æ in. (27.3 cm.) high, cloth box
$30,000-40,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4607.
The elegant yuhuchunping form, possibly used as a
decanter of wine, was eminently suitable to grace
the tables of the refined Song elite. When William
Watson illustrated a similar vase in Tang and Liao
Ceramics, London, 1984, pl. 63, he noted that this
form is “...one of the purest expressions of the
feeling for delicately curving, unarticulated profiles
which grew through the Five Dynasties period into
the Northern Song.” This similar vase, from the
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, was
previously illustrated in The Ceramic Art of China,
London, 1971 no. 57, pl. 40.

See, also, other similar vases, one from the Charles
B. Hoyt Collection in the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, illustrated in the Memorial Exhibition
Catalogue, 1952, pl. 88, no. 349; one in the Hakone
Art Museum, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama,
Seventy Years, 1976, vol. 1, no. 637; one in The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated
by S. Valenstein in The Herzman Collection of Chinese
Ceramics, New York, 1992, no. 25; and one in Born
861 A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN 金ǭ十Հ 十Ӳ世紀ǭ白釉盌 of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman
DEEP BOWL Collection, 1992, no. 57.
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The bowl is of deep, rounded form and is covered overall with a 北宋ǭ十 十一世紀ǭ白釉玉壺春≡
glossy clear glaze of slightly creamy tone. The center of the interior
has five tiny spur marks. Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
5√ in. (14.9 cm.) diam., cloth box
$5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3733.

The finely potted form and smooth creamy glaze are
characteristic of wares made at the Huozhou kilns in Shanxi
province. The five tiny spur marks on the interior of this bowl
are also typical of these wares, which were fired on spurs as
opposed to stacking on unglazed rings. For a few other examples
of this type of Huozhou ware see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pp. 276-77,
nos. 509-512.

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