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A RARE ‘XING’ ‘LION’-HANDLED EWER 五代 邢窰白釉獅柄執壺
FIVE DYNASTIES
來源：
well potted with a baluster body rising from a short splayed 家適公司，香港，1989年1月19日
foot to a broad rounded shoulder, surmounted by a trumpet
neck and flared rim, decorated to one side with a short gently
tapering spout and to the other with a strap handle modelled
in the form of a lion, the beast rendered clambering onto the
inner rim and skilfully detailed with a striated mane and tail,
covered overall with a translucent creamy-white glaze stopping
short of the unglazed foot to reveal the white body
19.5 cm, 7⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
Galaxie Company, Hong Kong, 19th January 1989.

HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,800-38,700

White-glazed ewers of this type were made in north China,
where the kilns specialised in high-fired white wares. Using
kaolin-rich clays the potters were able to produce vessels for
the home that blended in harmoniously with more expensive
silver objects. A closely related white ware ewer with similar
lion handle, formerly in the Eurmorfopoulos Collection, now
preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is
illustrated by Stacey Pierson, Chinese Ceramics, London,
2009, pp. 19-18, no. 18.

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