A RARE RU-STYLE VESSEL

18TH/19TH CENTURY

Details

A RARE RU-STYLE VESSEL
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The body lobed in the form of three stylized rams standing on an hexagonal ring base, all below a wide spreading neck applied with a band of C-scrolls between raised borders, covered inside and out with a crackle-suffused glaze of olive tone shading where it pools to lavender blue which continues just over the edge of the base to expose the fine buff ware
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high, wood stand, box

Provenance

Edward T. Chow.
M.C. Wang Collection, China, acquired through the 1940s, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Literature

H.D. Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, vol. I, Hong Kong, privately printed, 1950, no. 17.

Lot Essay

This vessel is made in imitation of a vessel now in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, described as Ru ware and of Song date, included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-36, no. 956. Another later vessel of this form, illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, is dated 18th century and the ware described as possibly yixing.

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