A PAIR OF AMBER-GLAZED STONEWARE VASES

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A PAIR OF AMBER-GLAZED STONEWARE VASES
LIAO DYNASTY

Each elongated ovoid body incised with narrow grooves around the shoulder and the base and middle of the tall, trumpet-shaped neck, covered with a bright amber glaze pooling in the recesses and falling in an irregular line on the lower body to expose some of the white slip and the fine-grained body (some firing faults)
13¾in. (35cm.) high, box (2)

Lot Essay

A characteristic Liao shape, this type of vase may appear in green or amber glaze. Similar examples have been found in Liao burials in Liaoning province and in Inner Mongolia. Compare two vases in the Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, illustrated by Yutaka Mino, Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty, China Institute, 1973, pls. 18 and 19; refer, also, to a similar example illustrated in Liaoci Xuanji, A Collection of Porcelain Tomb relics of the Liao Dynasty, Beijing, 1961, pl. 435: and another illustrated by Li Zhi Yan, The Art of Glazed Pottery of China, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 239