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A DING-TYPE WHITE-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED
VASE
12th/13th century
The elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short
splayed foot to a tall flaring neck with an everted rim,
covered overall with a smooth creamy white glaze
except the foot ring and base to reveal the white body,
calligraphic collector’s mark on the base, fitted box.
23cm (9 1/8in) high. (2).

£40,000 - 60,000
CNY360,000 - 540,000

十二/十三世紀 定窯系白釉膽瓶

Provenance: acquired from R & V Tregaskis,
Sydney, on 18 June 2002, no.2071
The Reid Collection

來源：
於2002年6月18日購自悉尼古董商R & V Tregaskis，
編號2071
Reid 收藏

Compare a white-glazed long necked bottle vase,
Jin dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, illustrated by S.Valenstein, The Herzman
Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992,
p.36, no.25. See also another example in the British
Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The
World’s Great Collections, vol.5, Tokyo, 1981, no.55.

A similar white-glazed long-necked bottle vase, Jin
dynasty, was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 March
2008, lot 530.

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