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831 A RARE GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN Նջ 北宋ǭ十至十Հ世紀ǭ白釉葫蘆式執壺
GOURD-FORM EWER
FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, Ϝ源
10TH-12TH CENTURY 藍理捷
紐約
編號
The ewer has an ovoid body with a globular neck and ribbed
collar, and is set on the shoulder with a short, faceted spout A white porcelain ewer of very similar form in the National Palace
opposite a curved strap handle molded with a woven rattan Museum is illustrated in Tingyao baici tezhan tulu (Catalogue of the
pattern. The ewer is covered with a translucent glaze of pale Special Exhibition of Ting ware White Porcelain), Taipei, 1987,
ivory tone. no. 10. Another similar ewer in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, cloth box is illustrated in the catalogue of The Charles B. Hoyt Collection,
Boston, 1972, vol. II, no. 31.
$30,000-50,000
Another similar ewer, but of smaller size, excavated from a tomb
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4605. dated to 1125-1160 at Haidian, Beijing municipality, is illustrated
in Treasures from a Swallow Garden, Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur
M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing,
1992, pp. 266-67, no. 143. See, also, the similar ewer excavated
in 2003 from a construction site at Xinggang, Xingtai city, Hebei
province, illustrated by Zhao and Zhang (eds.) in Qian nian Xing
yao (Xing Kiln in its Millennium), Beijing, 2007, p. 143.

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