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157 The function of this ewer and warming bowl was to warm wine. By
placing the wine-filled ewer in the bowl which was filled with hot water,
A rare Qingbai carved globular ewer, lion-finial the wine would keep warm. The form of such Southern Song ewers
cover and deep warming bowl would have drawn inspiration from late Tang and Five Dynasties styles.

Southern Song Dynasty Compare with a very similarl Qingbai ewer, cover and warming bowl,
also decorated with a wide band of flowers with narrow petals, in
The ewer raised on a short straight foot, decorated on the shoulder the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung
with delicately carved flower heads on leafy stems, with a long Ceramic Designs, London, 1970, pl.11. Another ewer of similar form
curved spout and strap handle, the cover surmounted with a mythical but undecorated, was excavated from a Northern Song Dynasty tomb
beast, covered in a thin translucent pale greenish-white glaze, the in Jiangxi, illustrated in ibid, pl.12b. Another related Qingbai ewer with
unglazed base exposing the white ware; the deep cylindrical bowl a lobed warming bowl, in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is
raised on a straight foot, decorated with a similar wide band of flower illustrated in Ceramics Gallery of the Palace Museum, Part 1, Beijing,
heads on leafy stems, covered in a thin translucent pale greenish- 2008, pp.206-207, no.143. A lobed Qingbai ewer, cover and warming
white glaze. bowl, decorated with a similar mythical beast surmounting the cover,
The ewer 21cm high (3). was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2004, lot 619.

HK$400,000 - 500,000
US$52,000 - 65,000

南宋 白釉刻花注壺及注盌 注子圓口，上有模製獅子鈕，彎流曲柄，淺圈足，折肩上刻有纏枝花
卉紋。注盌直口，深腹，圓圈足，外壁刻纏枝花卉紋，線條流暢，與
注子肩部紋飾配合。兩者通體施青白釉，光潤明亮，底部露胎。

注子及注盌是為一套用具，把盛有酒的注子放在注盌內，再在注盌內
加熱水，便能有溫酒作用，其形式最早可見於五代顧閎中所繪的《韓
熙載夜宴圖》之中，普遍流行於北宋時期。

北京故宮博物院藏景德鎮青白釉刻花注壺及注盌，與本拍品之形製

相近，見故宮博物院編《故宮陶瓷館．上編》，北京，2008年，頁
206-207，圖版143。

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