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846 A LARGE RUSSET-PAINTED 金ǭ黑釉鐵鏽花鳳鳥紋大罐
BLACK-GLAZED JAR, GUAN
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234) Ϝ源
㈅是軒
倫敦
年
The high-shouldered jar with lipped mouth is covered with a
藍理捷
紐約
編號
blackish-brown glaze and painted on the sides in russet slip with
three flying bird motifs.
9 in. (23 cm.) high, cloth box
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Priestley & Ferraro, London, 2014.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4835.

Typically dark-glazed, Jin-dynasty jars of this type are often
painted in russet or rust-brown slip with abstract floral
decoration or designs suggestive of birds in flight, such as those
seen on the present example, characteristically rendered with
vigorous, calligraphic strokes. Compare a jar of similar design
and form illustrated by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, col. pl. 26. Another
jar of this design in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by
R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3
(II), London, 2006, p. 514, no. 1517.

845 A GROUP OF SEVEN MINIATURE 宋ǭ紅陶ㄤⅧ泥塑像⼀組Ӯ։
POTTERY FIGURES
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279) Ϝ源
藍理捷
紐約
編號
The group comprises a seated boy holding a small dog, a boy
holding a lotus spray, a boy reclining with his head on a drum, a
standing boy holding a fruit, a boy acolyte standing with hands
together, a figure of Shennong (god of agriculture) holding a hoe
and a basket and wearing a skirt of leaves, and a wild boar on an
oval plaque.

Largest: 3Ω in. (9 cm.) high, cloth boxes (7)
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 3965.
A group of five Northern Song miniature red pottery boys in
the Zhengjiang City Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu
jinghua daquan: taocijuan (The Compendium of Chinese Archaeological
Treasures: Ceramics Volume), Hong Kong, 1993, p. 171, no. 584.
A related miniature pottery figure of a girl is in the Royal
Ontario Museum, accession no. 920.1.157.

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