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137 Compare with a high-fired white ware ewer with a similar lion handle,
formerly in the Eurmorfopoulos Collection, in the Victoria and Albert
A fine Xingyao baluster lion-handled ewer Museum, London, illustrated by Stacey Pierson, Chinese Ceramics,
London, 2009, pp.19-18, no.18. Another white ware ewer, also dated
Tang Dynasty Tang Dynasty and similarly potted with a lion handle and beast spout,
was sold at Christie’s New York, 26 March 2003, lot 206.
Potted with a gently tapered ovoid body raised on a short spreading
foot, the shoulder with a short spout formed as the mouth of a
mythical beast on one side and with a lion-head handle on the other,
covered overall in a thin creamy-beige glaze.
19.5cm high
HK$400,000 - 600,000
US$52,000 - 77,000
唐 邢窯白釉獅紋執壺
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