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A GREEN-GLAZED ‘BIRD’S HEAD’ EWER AN OCHRE-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE
Liao Dynasty Liao Dynasty
The earthenware body partially covered with a green lead glaze, the The elegant vase potted from pinkish beige clay with a recessed foot
neck with moulded ribs and applied bosses, the mouth formed as a and painted with a white slip to set off the rich orange tone of the
foliate rimmed bowl, wood stand. 32.5cm (12 3/4in) high ochre glaze applied to the flaring mouth, the narrow neck with a thin
rib and the slender body also with a thin rib at the shoulder, the interior
£600 - 800 also glazed ochre down the neck and the mouth with three spur
CNY5,800 - 7,700 marks, box. 34.5cm (13 5/8in) high (2).
HK$7,100 - 9,400
£1,000 - 2,000
Provenance CNY9,700 - 19,000
Purchased in 1993 Antik West Oriental Art & Antiques (label and HK$12,000 - 24,000
receipt)
Provenance
For a comparable green-glazed bird’s head ewer, Liao Dynasty, in the Purchased on 24 July 1990 from T.Y. King & Sons Ltd. (receipt)
San Francisco Museum of Asian Art see He Li, Chinese Ceramics,
London 2011, p. 146, no. 208. Also see another similar ewer, but cut
down at the rim, held in the Victoria & Albert Museum no. C.334-1951.

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