A Rare Sancai-Glazed Carved Pottery Baluster Vase

JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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A Rare Sancai-Glazed Carved Pottery Baluster Vase
Jin dynasty, 12th century
The ovoid body carved through a white slip with overlapping petals and glazed in green, yellow and white, raised on a tall pedestal foot and surmounted by a trumpet neck rising to a foliate rim with turned-over edges; together with a small green-glazed cup and amber-glazed cup stand, 10th century, the foliate rim of the cup stand with six subtle indentations, both cup and stand covered with a white slip beneath the glaze
Vase 10in. (25.4cm.) high; cup stand 3 9/16in. (9cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Vase: Mathias Komor, New York, September 1947.
Cup and cup stand: Mathias Komor, New York, December 1943.

Lot Essay

A vase of similar, though somewhat compressed shape, decorated in the same manner and glaze colors, discovered in 1954 and now in the Capital Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Gongyi Meishu, 2 Taoci, Zhong, Shanghai, 1988, where it is dated to the Jin dynasty. A nearly identical vase from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, also dated to the Jin period, was included in the Tokyo National Museum, Special Exhibition - Chinese Ceramics, 1984, p. 146, no. 213.

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