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833 A DING-TYPE EWER 晚唐 Նջǭ十世紀ǭ定窯系白釉執壺
LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES PERIOD, 10TH CENTURY
The ewer has a globular body with a waisted neck and a wide, Ϝ源
紐約蘇富比
年 月 日
拍品編號
flaring mouth, and is raised on a slightly splayed foot. The rounded
shoulder is incised with a double-line band interrupted by a 3PCFSU 'FSSJT Ⅷ藏
ד蒙特州溫莎
short upright spout opposite a double-stranded arching handle. 藍理捷
紐約
年
The ewer is covered overall with a glossy, pale-bluish-tinged 美國☆՞Ⅷ藏
年
藍理捷
紐約
編號
translucent glaze.
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) high, cloth box 展覽
紐約
藍理捷
「#SVTI $MBZ 1BJOUJOHT CZ 3PCFSU 'FSSJT
$12,000-15,000 BOE $IJOFTF $FSBNJDT PG UIF 4POH %ZOBTUZ GSPN UIF "SUJTU T
$PMMFDUJPO」
年 月 日 月 日
編號
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's New York, 7 December 1983, lot 220. ֨ḛ
Robert Ferris Collection, Windsor, Vermont. 藍理捷
《#SVTI $MBZ 1BJOUJOHT CZ 3PCFSU 'FSSJT BOE $IJOFTF
J. J. Lally & Co., New York,1997. $FSBNJDT PG UIF 4POH %ZOBTUZ GSPN UIF "SUJTU T $PMMFDUJPO》
紐
Private American collection, 1997-2019. 約
年
編號
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4904.
EXHIBITED:
New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris
and Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artist's Collection,
19 September-18 October 1997, no. 22.
LITERATURE:
J. J. Lally & Co., Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris and Chinese
Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artist's Collection, New York,
1997, no. 22.

The ovoid form of this ewer, the arching double-stranded handle,
and the straight spout are strongly reminiscent of late Tang white
wares, such as the ewer from the Florence and Herbert Irving
Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2019, lot 1230.
However, the refined potting, the high ring foot, and the very
high-fired porcelaneous body all illustrate a transition to the style
of the Five Dynasties period.

A similar white porcelain ewer from the tomb of Qian Kuan
(buried AD 900) in Lin’an, Zhejiang province, is illustrated in the
excavation report Wan Tang Qian Kuan fufu mu (The Qian Kuan
Couple Tombs in Late Tang), Beijing, 2012, col. pl. 10, with a line
832 A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN JAR Նջ 北宋ǭ十至十Հ世紀ǭ白釉罐 drawing on p. 29, ill. 3-28.
FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY,
10TH-12TH CENTURY See, also, the similar white porcelain ewer of smaller size in the
Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo gudai baici guoji xueshu
The jar is of ovoid form with a wide mouth and flanged rim, Ϝ源 yantaohui lunwenji (Symposium on Ancient Chinese White Porcelain
and is decorated with a pair of incised lines on the steeply rounded 3PHFS ,FWFSOF
倫敦
年 Proceedings), Shanghai, 2005, p. 685, col. pl. 19.
shoulders. It is covered overall with a clear glaze applied over 歐洲☆՞Ⅷ藏
white slip, with a pool of dark iron-brown glaze in the center of 藍理捷
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編號
the interior.
4¿ in. (10.5 cm.) high, cloth box
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
Roger Keverne, London, 2015.
Private European collection.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4851.
Compare the Ding covered jar of very similar form, also
decorated with pairs of incised lines, found in 1969 in the
underground foundation vault of the Jingzhongyuan Pagoda,
dated to AD 995, in Dingzhou city, Hebei province, illustrated
in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic
Art Unearthed in China), vol. 3, Hebei, Beijing, 2008, p. 113,
no. 113.

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