LIAO/NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A RARE DING-TYPE VASE, MEIPING
LIAO/NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The vase is well potted with an elegant body of tapering ovoid shape that is surmounted by a cylindrical neck that rises to a wide mouth with lipped rim, and is covered overall with a transparent glaze of creamy white color that falls to the edge of the foot where the fine white, porcellaneous ware is exposed. The recessed base is also glazed.
16¾ in. (41.3 cm.) high

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

Exhibited

New York, J.J. Lally & Co., Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty, 18 March - 8 April 2002, no. 9.

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Lot Essay

A Song dynasty vase of related shape, but of slightly smaller size (13 in.), and with four grooved bands on the shoulder, is illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, New York, 1996, p. 149, no. 227, where it is classified as Ding, and from Hebei.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. p101t81 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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