A RARE CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON EWER AND COVER

11TH/12TH CENTURY

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A RARE CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON EWER AND COVER
11th/12th Century
Deeply and finely carved around the bulbous body with scrolling peony enhanced with incised details and bearing a large blossom positioned below the curved spout rising from the canted shoulder below a slightly waisted conical neck, the loop handle impressed with a lozenge diaper pattern, the stepped cover surmounted by a small knop and pierced on the side with two holes for attachment to the handle, covered overall with a finely crackled transparent glaze of pale sea-green tone
8in. (20cm.) high

拍场告示

This lot is withdrawn.

拍品专文

A similar example (described as Dongyao) is illustrated by G. Gompertz, Chinese Celadon Wares, London, 1958, pl. 34 and another is illustrated in Selected Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1996, pl. 102.

This ewer and cover with its decoration finely cut in high relief may be the rare type of Yaozhou ware previously referred to as Dongyao or 'Eastern' ware. In a discussion of Yaozhou wares in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1996, vol. 1, p. 226, Regina Krahl notes that 'vessels of this type have now been discovered at the Yaozhou kiln sites at Huangbaozhen, Tongchuan county.'

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P298j51 is consistent with the dating of this lot.