A QINGBAI LOBED EWER AND COVER

SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A QINGBAI LOBED EWER AND COVER
SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The body carved with eight vertical lobes that rise to just below an incised band at the base of the trumpet neck, with another incised band below the shoulder, and a leaf incised at the base of the curved spout and strap handle applied on top with a small loop for attachment to a similar loop on the canted rim of the concave cover applied in the center with three leaves issuing from a bud, covered overall with a transparent pale aqua glaze, the unglazed base burnt orange in the firing
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A related Qingbai ewer was excavated from a Song tomb at Yanshan near Shaowu in Fujian province, and is illustrated in Kaogu, 1981:5, pl. 11, fig. 8. One in the Yokogawa collection is included in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, vol. 1, no. 378; another is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 417; and a third is illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 272-3, no. 118.

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