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A QINGBAI-GLAZED LOBED EWER Inspired by Middle Eastern glass and metal prototypes, this ewer is
Song Dynasty a fine example of Qingbai wares. A related ewer was excavated from
Elegantly potted with an eight-lobed body rising to a tall cylindrical a Song dynasty tomb at Yanshan near Shaowu in Fujian Province,
neck flaring at the rim, set on one side with a slender, curving spout and is illustrated in Kaogu, 1981:5, pl.11, fig.8. Published examples
opposite a strap handle with a small ring at the top, decorated with an of this form include one from the Yokogawa collection in Illustrated
incised band just below the rim, a lightly incised series of lines around Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, vol.1, no.378; another in
the mid-section of the body, covered overall with a transparent pale- Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.417; a
blue glaze pooling to a darker tone within the recesses, the base and third in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, 1994, pp.272-273,
footrim unglazed. no.118; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London is illustrated
22.5cm (8 7/8in) high. by R.Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pp.96-97, no.97;
and another in the British Museum, in Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain
£10,000 - 15,000 of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Percival David Foundation of Chinese
CNY91,000 - 140,000 Art, 2002, pp.120-121, no.61. See also several more similar qingbai
ewers, Song dynasty, illustrated in Mayuyama: 70 Years, vol.1, Tokyo,
1976, p.145, pls.422-425.
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Compare with a similar qingbai ‘lobed’ ewer and cover, Northern Song
dynasty, formerly in the collection of Sakamoto Goro, which was sold
at Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2015, lot 3.

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