Lot Essay
Compare with a similar example sold in our New York Rooms, 9 June 1992, lot 338.
A similar amphora from the Metropolitan Museum of Art is included in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Greatest Collections, vol. 12, no. 136, where it is illustrated with other clair-de-lune-glazed objects for the scholar's table.
The vase here is described as an amphora after a Greek shape, but is known as a Guanyin ping by Chinese collectors since its shape compares to the lustration vase said to contain ambrosia held by figures of Guanyin depicted in bronzes, paintings and sculptures. It is also known in Chinese as liuye ping, 'willow-leaf vase', owing to its shape.
Vases of this shape are more commonly found covered in a peach-bloom glaze. Cf. the example from a complete set of eight scholar's vessels from the Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 557.
(US$9,000-12,000)
A similar amphora from the Metropolitan Museum of Art is included in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Greatest Collections, vol. 12, no. 136, where it is illustrated with other clair-de-lune-glazed objects for the scholar's table.
The vase here is described as an amphora after a Greek shape, but is known as a Guanyin ping by Chinese collectors since its shape compares to the lustration vase said to contain ambrosia held by figures of Guanyin depicted in bronzes, paintings and sculptures. It is also known in Chinese as liuye ping, 'willow-leaf vase', owing to its shape.
Vases of this shape are more commonly found covered in a peach-bloom glaze. Cf. the example from a complete set of eight scholar's vessels from the Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 557.
(US$9,000-12,000)