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864 A VERY RARE DING BOTTLE VASE 北宋 金ǭ十Հ世紀ǭ定窯白釉帶蓋膽≡
AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The elegant pear-shaped body tapers to a tall, slender neck rising
to a slightly flared mouth with lipped rim. The domed cover is
surmounted by a bud-shaped finial. Both are covered overall with
a clear glaze shading to a pale creamy tone in some places.
Vase: 11æ in. (29.8 cm.) high
And cover: 13¿ in. (33.3 cm.) high, cloth box
$80,000-100,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3900.
It is extremely rare to find vases of this type with a cover.
A very similar bottle-vase without a cover in the Carl Kempe
Collection is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics
in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 118, no. 359.
Also, see, a similar version, without cover, in the Idemitsu
Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection,
Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 84. The same vase was previously
illustrated in Teiyį hakuji (White Porcelain of Dingyao), Tokyo,
1983, p. 68, no. 112.

Another similar white porcelain bottle-vase from a mural tomb
in Luoyang, Henan province is illustrated in Wenwu, 1992,
No. 12, p. 49, pl. 39, with a line drawing, pl. 34-2. The same
vase is illustrated again by Zhang (ed.), Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji
(Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China),
vol. 12, Henan, Beijing, 2007, p. 175, no. 175, described as
Jin dynasty and is currently in the collection of the Luoyang
Museum.

A silver bottle-vase and cover of the same shape as the present
vase, in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, is illustrated by
R. Ward and P. Fidler (eds.) in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art:
A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 339.

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