A RARE GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN GOURD-FORM EWER
A RARE GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN GOURD-FORM EWER
A RARE GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN GOURD-FORM EWER
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A RARE GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN GOURD-FORM EWER

FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY

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A RARE GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN GOURD-FORM EWER
FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY
The ewer has an ovoid body with a globular neck and ribbed collar, and is set on the shoulder with a short, faceted spout opposite a curved strap handle molded with a woven rattan pattern. The ewer is covered with a translucent glaze of pale ivory tone.
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4605.

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Lot Essay

A white porcelain ewer of very similar form in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Tingyao baici tezhan tulu (Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting ware White Porcelain), Taipei, 1987, no. 10. Another similar ewer in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is illustrated in the catalogue of The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Boston, 1972, vol. II, no. 31.

Another similar ewer, but of smaller size, excavated from a tomb dated to 1125-1160 at Haidian, Beijing municipality, is illustrated in Treasures from a Swallow Garden, Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, 1992, pp. 266-67, no. 143. See, also, the similar ewer excavated in 2003 from a construction site at Xinggang, Xingtai city, Hebei province, illustrated by Zhao and Zhang (eds.) in Qian nian Xing yao (Xing Kiln in its Millennium), Beijing, 2007, p. 143.

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