Lot Essay
Compare the unusual spout on this wine pot with that on a Song dynasty ewer in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 16, Song Yuan Qingbaici, Shanghai, 1984, no. 93.
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YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
Details
A Qingbai Molded Wine Pot
Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century
The compressed body crisply molded with two registers of peony scroll between a border of leaf tips below and a band of classic scroll above, the curved spout whimsically decorated as a dragon's head with iron-spotted eyes, and the ribbed, curved handle with a loop at the top, covered with a transparent glaze of pale blue tone; with an enamel-inlaid copper cover of later date
6in. (15.3cm.) across
Falk Collection no. 74.
Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century
The compressed body crisply molded with two registers of peony scroll between a border of leaf tips below and a band of classic scroll above, the curved spout whimsically decorated as a dragon's head with iron-spotted eyes, and the ribbed, curved handle with a loop at the top, covered with a transparent glaze of pale blue tone; with an enamel-inlaid copper cover of later date
6in. (15.3cm.) across
Falk Collection no. 74.
Provenance
George Eumorfopoulos Collection, B.73 and B.74.
Miss J.M. Blake Collection, London.
Mrs. A.W. Kaster Collection, Surrey.
William Clayton Ltd., England, June 1963.
Miss J.M. Blake Collection, London.
Mrs. A.W. Kaster Collection, Surrey.
William Clayton Ltd., England, June 1963.
Literature
R.L. Hobson, Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1926, no. B.73, and illustrated no. B46.