Page 90 - March 17, 2020 Impotant Chinese Art, Sotheby's, New York

235
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A ‘JIZHOU’ ‘TORTOISESHELL’ BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
the shallow rounded sides rising to a slightly inverted rim
from a slightly tapering foot, covered overall in a dark
brownish-black glaze irregularly dappled with amber-beige
tones simulating tortoiseshell, the glaze ending unevenly
around the exterior revealing the buff body
Diameter 6⅛ in., 15.5 cm
PROVENANCE
American Private Collection, acquired in London, circa the
mid-1990s.
$ 6,000-8,000

南宋 吉州窰玳瑁釉盌

來源
美國私人收藏，得於倫敦，約1990年代中期

236
235 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A ‘YAOZHOU’ BROWN-GLAZED BOWL
TANG DYNASTY
supported on a straight foot the steep sides rising to a
flared rim, the interior glazed in dark brown over a white slip
outlining a star-shaped reserve, six groups of petal motifs
symmetrically arranged, the exterior body similarly glazed 237
around the rim revealing the brownish-gray stoneware body
Diameter 4⅞ in., 12.5 cm PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE See two closely related Northern Song dynasty cosmetic
COLLECTION boxes with similar persimmon-glazed cups set to the interior,
PROVENANCE AN UNUSUAL CELADON AND PERSIMMON- the first excavated with the cover missing from the Yaozhou
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2009. GLAZED ‘YAOZHOU’ COSMETIC BOX AND kiln sites at Huangbaozhen, Shaanxi province in 1981, now in
See a closely related Tang dynasty bowl with similar black- COVER the collection of the Yaozhou Kiln Museum, Tongchuan City,
glazed design in Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, published NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY published in Zhang Bai, ed., Zhongguo chutu taoci quanji
in Yōshūyō: Chūgoku Nakahara ni hana hiraita mei kama / Shaanxi / Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed
The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Tokyo, 1997, pl. 12. of circular section, the box with low curved sides rising from in China. Shaanxi, Beijing, 2008, pl. 141, and the second
in Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto, published in
a shallow lower body set over a slightly spreading foot, the Yōshūyō: Chūgoku Nakahara ni hana hiraita mei kama / The
$ 5,000-7,000 cover with similar curved sides and a gently domed top, the Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Tokyo, 1997, pl. 52.
top carved with a blossoming peony surrounded by leafy
foliage, the interior set with three persimmon-glazed cups The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a
唐 耀州窰黑釉點花紋盌 separated by three similarly decorated foliage bands, the box thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd.,
covered in a olive-green glaze save for the interior rim and no. P104d36.
來源 foot, revealing the burnt brown clay body from firing (2)
藍理捷，紐約，2009年 Diameter 4¼ in., 10.7 cm $ 10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Gordon. 北宋 耀州窰青釉刻牡丹紋粉盒
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2009.
來源
EXHIBITED Marvin Gordon 醫生伉儷收藏
The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, Chinese 藍理捷，紐約，2009年
Ceramics and Works of Art, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2009.
cat. no. 10.
236 展覽
《The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon,
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art》，藍理捷，紐
約，2009年，編號10

176 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N10644 177