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Lot Essay
A very similar figural ewer in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, formerly in the collection of Samuel T. Peters, was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum and published in the exhibition catalogue by H. Trubner in The Arts of the Tang Dynasty, Los Angeles, 1957, pp. 102-103, no. 271. The same ewer is illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 121, pl. 92.
Another figural ewer excavated in Anhui province in 1994 from a tomb dated to AD 1025 in Susong county, near Anqing, is illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 8, Anhui, Beijing, 2008, no. 98. This ewer is of similar size to that of the current ewer and also has details highlighted in iron brown. The form of this Susong ewer depicts a Daoist immortal playing a reed pipe, and the hair is tied up in a simple cloth. A qingbai figural ewer, without such an elaborate headdress, from the Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth was sold at Christie's New York, 20 March 2015, lot 837. (Fig. 1)
A similarly modeled porcelain figural ewer covered in a plain white glaze, dated to Northern Song and excavated in 1971 at Tengyun village, Huaining county, Anqing city, Anhui province, is illustrated by Zhang (ed.), ibid., p. 150, no. 150.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P110r22 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
Another figural ewer excavated in Anhui province in 1994 from a tomb dated to AD 1025 in Susong county, near Anqing, is illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 8, Anhui, Beijing, 2008, no. 98. This ewer is of similar size to that of the current ewer and also has details highlighted in iron brown. The form of this Susong ewer depicts a Daoist immortal playing a reed pipe, and the hair is tied up in a simple cloth. A qingbai figural ewer, without such an elaborate headdress, from the Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth was sold at Christie's New York, 20 March 2015, lot 837. (Fig. 1)
A similarly modeled porcelain figural ewer covered in a plain white glaze, dated to Northern Song and excavated in 1971 at Tengyun village, Huaining county, Anqing city, Anhui province, is illustrated by Zhang (ed.), ibid., p. 150, no. 150.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P110r22 is consistent with the dating of this lot.