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954 A LARGE ‘DING’ BOWL
SONG DYNASTY
A ‘JIAN’ TYPE ‘HARE’S FUR’ BOWL
SONG YUAN DYNASTY the deeply rounded body rising from a slightly tapered foot
to an everted rim, covered overall in an ivory glaze pooling in
potted with a narrow groove encircling the exterior below the characteristic teardrops to one side of the exterior, the rim
rim, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze, thinning at the bound in metal
rim with russet streaks extending downwards, the glaze falling Diameter 8⅞ in., 22.5 cm
short of the foot to reveal a thin layer of purplish-brown slip PROVENANCE
and the gray stoneware body underneath Collection of Desmond FitzGerald (1846-1926), Brookline,
Diameter 4⅝ in., 11.8 cm Massachusetts.
$ 1,000-1,500 American Art Galleries, New York, 22nd April 1927, lot 118
(part lot).
⬳军⃫ġġġ⺢䩘䲣⃼㮓䲳䙴 Collection of Mrs. Edwin Sibley Webster (1870-1969), Boston,
Massachusetts, and thence by descent.
955 EXHIBITED
76 SOTHEBY’S Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1888 (according to label).
$ 2,000-3,000

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955

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. PETER M.
GREINER

A QINGBAI LOBED ‘FLORAL’ DISH
SONG DYNASTY

the rim divided into six ‘petal’ lobes, the interior freely incised
with a peony stem bearing a large central blossom, against a
combed ground, applied with a transparent glaze tinged to blue
Diameter 7¼ in., 19.1 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired between 1970-1979.
$ 1,500-2,000

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