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AN EXTREMELY RARE WHITE-GLAZED PEAR- PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Remarkable for its large size, this cup is a rare example of the
SHAPED VASE A RARE LARGE WHITE-GLAZED CUP high quality white wares produced during the Sui dynasty.
SUI / TANG DYNASTY SUI DYNASTY Related cups have been discovered from Sui dynasty tombs,
but are mostly of smaller size. See, for example, a group
Height 10¾ in., 27.2 cm Diameter 4⅞ in,, 12.5 cm of three closely related cups attributed to the Xing kilns,
excavated from the tomb of Li Yu, dated to the year 605,
PROVENANCE PROVENANCE in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, published in Shaanxi Provincial
Japanese Private Collection. Sotheby’s New York, 30th March 2006, lot 8. Institute of Archaeology, ‘Xi’an nanjiao sui liyu mu fajue
Compare a vase of this form in the collection of the Idemitsu jianbao [A brief report on the excavation of the Sui tomb of
Li Yu in the southern rural of Xi’an]’, Wenwu, no. 7, 2009, fig.
Museum of Arts, Tokyo, attributed to the 8th century, $ 30,000-50,000
published in White Ceramics of the East: The Genuine Pure 28; and two other cups excavated from the tomb of Yuan Wei
World, Tokyo, 2012, pl. 11. See two other examples of the 隋 白釉大盃 and his wife, dated 601, in Xianyang city, Shaanxi province,
published in Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
same shape, attributed to the Sui dynasty: the first illustrated and Xianyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology,
in Mino Yutaka, Hakuji [White Porcelain], vol. 5. Tokyo, 1998,
pl. 16, the second was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th 來源 ‘Sui yuanwei fufu mu fajue jianbao [A brief report on the
November 2020, lot 3024. 紐約蘇富比2006年3月30日，編號8 excavation of the Sui tomb of Yuan Wei and his wife]’ Kaogu
yu wenwu / Archaeology and Cultural Relics, no. 1, 2012, fig.
5, no. 1, together with three smaller cups, nos 2 and 4; and
⊖ $ 8,000-12,000
another, excavated from the dated tomb (607) of Zhang Lin
and his wife in Chang’an district, Xi’an, now preserved in the
隋 / 唐 白釉長頸瓶 Xi’an Institute of Cultural Relics Preservation, illustrated in
Zhang Bai, Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji / Complete Collection
來源 of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2008, pl. 14. Very
日本私人收藏 few related cups of a comparable size have appeared in the
market. See two sold in our London rooms, one from the
George de Menasce Collection, 29th March 1977, lot 231, and
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A WHITE-GLAZED JAR
SUI / EARLY TANG DYNASTY
Height 4¾ in., 12 cm
PROVENANCE
Asian Private Collection.
Sotheby’s London, 9th November 2018, lot 265.
⊖ $ 6,000-8,000

隋 / 唐初 白釉三繫罐

來源
亞洲私人收藏
倫敦蘇富比2018年11月9日，編號265

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