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SPECIMENS OF SUNG AND MING POTTERY

152-CANTON SPLASH VASE (Ming)
Oviform, with heavy body; high, sloping shoulder recurv-
ing in a short constricted neck to a thick everted lip, the
outlines of the body contracting slowly below, to expand
again in a spreading foot. Heavy Canton ware of the
Ming period. Coated with a rich and unctuous transmuta-
tion glaze of pitted surface, which flows over the lip, the
interior of the short neck, and the exterior surface all the
way to the foot. The shoulder presents a roundabout
splash of rich black, while the greater exposures below
exhibit a fused and mingled cataract of blues, bluish and
grayish whites, drifting over the black, and on the full
rounded lip the chromatic fusion is marbled with brown.
(Foot slightly chipped.) Carved teakwood stand.
Height, 6% inches.

153-CHUN-YAO COUPE (Sung)
Ovoidal, the body swelling from a low foot and contracting
again in the effect of a truncated cone, the mouth rather
wide. Coated with an unctuous glaze in the picturesque
grays of early morning, melting into the underlying deep
sky-blue-an effect "Whistlerian," of a millennium ago.
The rim has a thin glaze of brown, and the thick exterior
glaze is flowed broadly again over the interior. Has carved
teakwood stand.
Height 3% inches; diameter, 41;4 inches.

154-BLACK TING YAO TEA BOWL (Sung)
From Honan province. Clear, musical porcelain; shallow
bowl and broad, the body flaring immediately from a low
foot. Coated with a glaze of rich black, broadly streaked
with red-brown splashes. To Japanese collectors these
bowls are known as Tenmoku, or "chrysanthemum bowls,"
because of their shape, which is held to resemble the chrys-
anthemum flower.
Diameter, 5% inches.