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136 An earlier Northern Qi or Sui Dynasty yellow-glazed alms bowl in
A rare large Xingyao shallow alms bowl and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by Wu Tung, Earth
cover Transformed, Chinese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,
Tang Dynasty/Five Dynasties Boston, 2009, pp.26-27. The author states that the form of the bowl
Elegantly potted with a compressed globular form, covered overall in derives from metalwork, introduced to China from Persia or Central
a creamy white glaze, the plain flat cover similarly glazed. Asia. The alms bowl, patra in Sanskrit, was originally used in Indian
17cm diam. (2). Buddhist practice as a begging bowl and water container for washing.
In China, these bowls were made in metal as well as ceramic, with the
HK$150,000 - 200,000 former used for rituals and latter versions for daily use.
US$19,000 - 26,000
罐斂口，鼓 腹，圈足。通體施白釉，釉色白中泛青。唐代，邢窯是北
唐/五代 邢窯白釉蓋罐
方的著名瓷窯，以燒白瓷為主，兼燒黃釉、黑釉、三彩品種。其產品
不僅供國內使用，而且遠銷世界各地。唐代邢窯白瓷有精、粗之分，
以供不同階層人的需求。正如唐人李肇《國補史》所曰：「內丘白瓷
甌，端溪紫石硯，天下無貴賤通用之。」
波士頓 美術館藏一件更早期的黃釉缽碗，屬北齊或隋代，器形與本
器類似，見Wu Tung編，《Earth Transformed, Chinese Ceramics in
the Museum of Fine Arts Boston》，波士頓，2009年，頁26-27。更
多相關例子可參閱故宮博物院編，《故宮經典：故宮陶瓷圖典》，北
京，2010年。
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