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A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED BOWL
YUAN DYNASTY
well potted with the deep, gently rounded sides rising from
a short splayed foot to an inverted rim, covered overall with
a lustrous russet-mottled black glaze, accentuated to the
interior with three freely irregular splashes of metallic russet,
the glaze falling short above the foot to reveal the buff-
colored stoneware body
Diameter 5⅜ in., 13.8 cm

$ 3,000-5,000

元 黑釉鐵鏽花紋盌

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AN IRON-BROWN-DECORATED TEADUST-
GLAZED VASE
JIN DYNASTY

the slightly compressed globular body rising from a recessed
base to a short neck set with a flange below the lipped rim,
freely painted around the shoulder in iron-oxide with two
abstract designs of flower sprays, reserved on a speckled
teadust-brown glaze save for the foot ring to reveal the buff-
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colored stoneware body
Height 7¾ in., 19.7 cm
$ 6,000-8,000

金 茶葉末釉鐵鏽花紋小口瓶

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A RARE CELADON-GLAZED ‘BUTTERFLY’ BOX PROVENANCE
AND COVER J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2011.
TANG DYNASTY / FIVE DYNASTIES A closely related pale celadon-glazed box and cover of a
slightly smaller size, identified as Xing ware, in the collection
of compressed circular form, the narrow straight sides of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is published in The Complete
tapering towards a flat base, the domed cover molded to the Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of
top with a butterfly in flight, the auspicious insect highlighted the Jin and Tang Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 92.
with dark brown spots at the head and wings, covered with a
translucent glaze of a pale celadon color suffused with a fine
network of crackles (2) $ 5,000-7,000
Diameter 2⅞ in., 7.3 cm
唐 / 五代 青釉點褐彩瑞蝶紋小蓋盒

來源
藍理捷，紐約，2011年

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