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882 TWO RU-TYPE SHARDS
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY,
LATE 11TH CENTURY–EARLY 12TH CENTURY
One fragment with a short leg at one edge is from the base of a
tripod censer and the other is a fragment from a deep bowl with a
slightly flared ring foot. Both are covered with a satiny glaze of pale
bluish-grey tone suffused with faint crackle, and the underside of
each has a small ‘sesame seed' spur mark.
4º in. (10.8 cm.) long and 3æ in. (9.5 cm.) long (2)
$1,000-1,500
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3646.

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883 A GUAN OCTAGONAL CUP 南宋ǭ官窯八方盃
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
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exterior and slightly convex on the interior. The cup is raised
on a small ring foot and is covered overall with a crackled bluish
grey-green glaze that continues on to the recessed base, and
showing a Y-shaped gilt lacquer repair.
3Ω in. (9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3313.

The delicate, octagonal form of this cup, raised on a short foot, can
be found in various wares of the Song dynasty. A Ge cup of very
similar form in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of
the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, no. 69, p. 76. See, also, a
qingbai cup of this shape illustrated by J. Wirgin in Chinese Ceramics
in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 164, no. 530, and
the Longquan celadon cup of this form in the collection of the
Shanghai Museum illustrated in Longquan yao yanjiu (The Research
of Longquan Kiln), Beijing, 2011, p. 53, pl. 5.

The faceted shape of this cup suggests that it was based on a
metal prototype, such as a Southern Song gilt-silver octagonal
cup illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji (The Great Treasure of
Chinese Fine Arts), vol. 10: Gongyi Meishu Bian (Works of Art and
Craft), Beijing, 1987, no. 95, p. 45, with full description on p. 27.

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