Page 98 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

164- BROWN TING Y AO BOWL (Sung)
Broad, its sides flaring from a low circular foot in a very
slight curve, and its rim marked by six small indentations,
after the manner of the white bowls of Yung-lo. Deli-
cate, resonant porcelain of musical note, invested with a
monochrome glaze of reddish-brown.
Diameter, 7% inches.

165-PAIR PAl TING YAO TAZZAS (Sung)
Ovoid cup slightly expanding at the rim; on a tubular foot
spreading at the base. Light porcelain covered with a
soft creamy-white glaze revealing a faint crackle, the rims
bound in oxidized metal.
Height, 3% inches; diameter, 4% inches.

166-Ju-CHOU JAR WITH Covicu (Sung)
Ovoidal contour, with high, broad shoulder and narrow foot,
giving an inverted-cone suggestion; short straight lip. Sung
pottery of sonorous quality, coated with a light creamy-
gray glaze deepening to caie-au-loit and minutely crackled.
Painted in light and dark brown with a decoration of con-
ventional floral forms freely treated, and two figures drawn
with a bold directness and vigor of expression. About the
shoulder a conventional border in the same penciling,
Carved teakwood hat-shaped cover surmounted by a jade
carving of a mandarin duck holding a lotus bud and seed-
pod in its beak. Teakwood table-stand with sinuous under-
bracing and five legs carved in a highly conventionalized
form of the ancient dragon.
Height, 11 inches.