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249 A stoneware flask of similar form with linked strap handles and a
A rare green-glazed slender baluster flask with cup-shaped mouth, formerly in the George Eumorfopoulos Collection,
applied decoration in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by Rose
Liao Dynasty Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p.68, no.64. Compare
The ovoid body raised on a tall foot, rising to a ribbed neck and flat also with an amber-glazed flask with similar applied decoration,
cup-shaped mouth, decorated with patterns of raised whorls and unearthed from a Liao tomb in Helinge’er county, Inner Mongolia, in the
pendent bands, the sides applied with two linked strap handles, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Museum, illustrated in Chinese
covered overall in a deep green glaze. Ceramics, From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty, Yale
29.5cm high University Press New Haven, 2010, p.316, fig.6.61.

HK$800,000 - 1,200,000 A Liao Dynasty ewer and cover, decorated with similar whorl patterns
US$100,000 - 150,000 and pendent bands, was included in the exhibition The Arts of the
T’ang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum 1957, illustrated by
遼 綠釉貼花穿帶瓶 Henry Trubner in the exhibition catalogue American Exhibitions of
Chinese Art, London, 1957, p.104-105, no.279.

The result of C-Link Research & Development Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no.8729YL10 is consistent with the dating of
this lot.

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