Page 71 - J.J. Lally Chinese Art CHRISTIE'S March 23 2023 NYC

828 A DING CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER Նջ 北宋ǭ十世紀ǭ定窯白釉刻花六≓式蓋盒
FIVE DYNASTIES–NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY
The box has straight sides tapering in towards the base and is raised Ϝ源
on a small ring foot. The flat cover with beveled edge is divided 藍理捷
紐約
編號
into six equal lobes by deep notches embellished with finely incised
feathery lines. Both are covered overall with a transparent glaze of
ivory tone.
4¿ in. (10.5 cm.) diam., brocade box
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4880.

Compare the white porcelain circular box and cover dated Tang National Museum and illustrated in the catalogue Kentįshi to Tį
to Five Dynasties, 10 Century, of similar shape with an extended no bijutsi (Cultural Crossings: Tang Art and the Japanese Envoys),
th
inner rim in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Tokyo, 2005, p. 79, no. 44. Another white porcelain circular
illustrated in Dingzhou huaci: yuancang Dingyao xi baici tezhan box and cover of this type is illustrated by R. Mowry, Peace and
(Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding wares from the Quietude—Song Ceramics from the Qingjingtang Collection, Lisbon,
Collection of the National Palace Museum), Taipei, 2013, p. 41, 2014, pp. 168-169, no. 44, where it is described as Xing ware
no. I-22, where the author notes Changsha circular covered boxes following a silver shape and dated Tang to Five Dynasties. A further
with the same distinctive wide rounded inner rim have been found comparable circular box with similarly notched cover, inscribed on
bearing the inscription you he (oil box), indicating this type of box the base Yuanyou si nian (Yuanyou fourth year), corresponding to
may have been used as a cosmetic container. AD 1089, is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the
Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 129, no. 403, where it is
A white porcelain circular covered box with extended inner rim identified as Ding ware.
unearthed from the crypt of pagoda no. 2 of the Fawangsi temple

at Dengfeng city, Henan province was exhibited at the Tokyo

827 A CARVED YUE CELADON 北宋初ǭ十 十一世紀ǭ越窯青釉刻蓮紋盞托
CUP STAND
EARLY NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH–11TH CENTURY Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The cup stand is of lower saucer shape with a wide, flat petal-
lobed rim incised with lotus blossoms. The central support rises
from a deep recess and is carved around the sides with a band of
overlapping petals below a circular lip enclosing a platform. The
stand is covered overall with a glaze of greenish-olive tone.
5 in. (12.6 cm.) diam., cloth box
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4886.
A very similar Yue cup stand discovered in 1979 at a
construction site in Shangpuzha, Shangyu city, Zhejiang
province, and now in the Shangyu Museum, is illustrated by
Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection
of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 9, Beijing, 2008,
p. 155, no. 155.

Shards of similar cup stands unearthed from the Yue kiln sites at
Silongkou, Zhejiang province, are illustrated in Silongkou Yueyao
zhi (The Yuezhou Kiln Site at Silongkou), Beijing, 2002, p. 167,
color pl. 209 and in line drawings on p. 166, pl. 93-1 and 93-5.

(another view)

68 69