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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BROOKS PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AND DOROTHY COFIELD
AN AMBER-GLAZED FLASK A ‘CHANGSHA’ GREEN-GLAZED
LIAO DYNASTY A LARGE ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON- EWER AND COVER
GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER TANG DYNASTY
of ‘pouch’ form, the tall tapered body supported LATE YUAN / EARLY MING
on a ared foot and rising to a short vertical DYNASTY of tapering ovoid form, anked on one side with a
tubular spout fused with a notched arched short spout and a long, at rectangular handle on
handle, the body applied with bosses and straps heavily potted and supported by mask-and-paw another, the dome-shaped cover mounted with
to simulate its leather prototype, covered with feet, the shallow rounded sides carved with bagua a bud-form nial and a loop on the side, covered
a yellowish amber glaze falling in an uneven line between rows of applied orettes encircling the overall in an olive-green glaze, the foot ring left
over the bu -colored body unglazed to reveal the bu body (2)
Height 11⅜ in., 29 cm at rim and base, covered with a lustrous sea- Height 6½ in., 16.5 cm
green glaze falling short of the incised interior
PROVENANCE center and a raised disc on the base, both burnt PROVENANCE
orange in the ring Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham,
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Diameter 13⅞ in., 35.2 cm Alabama, 1988-2015 (on loan).
Alabama, 1988-2015 (on loan).
PROVENANCE For a related ewer, see one illustrated in
Three closely related asks with similar applied Zhongguo taoci. Changsha tong guanyao,
decoration and notched handle but with various Collection of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1853- Shanghai, 1985, pl. 79.
glazes are illustrated in Yuzo Sigimura, Toji Taikei: 1944).
Ryo no toji [Liao Dynasty Ceramics], Tokyo, 1974, $ 1,500-2,000
pls. 2, 32 and 33. $ 3,000-5,000
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$ 3,000-5,000 ⃫㛓ġİġ㖶⇅ġġġ漵㱱䩘曺慱ℓ⌎䲳ᶱ嵛䆸

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