A SMALL OLIVE-GREEN GLAZED STONEWARE EWER

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A SMALL OLIVE-GREEN GLAZED STONEWARE EWER
FIVE DYNASTIES, 10TH CENTURY

The ovoid body encircled by rows of impressed reel marks below a slightly flared neck rising to a lipped rim, with a short, conical spout rising from the shoulder opposite a double strap handle with thumb-pressed terminus, covered in a thin glaze of yellowish olive-green tone also covering the interior of the neck and ending in a line above the solid foot to expose the granular buff ware, glaze degraded, some restoration to rim; together with a small blue-glazed buff pottery jar, Tang Dynasty, the compressed globular body covered with a dark blue glaze stopping in an irregular line above the solid foot, with some splashes of pale green glaze on the lower body, some restoration--6 5/8 and 3in. (16.8 and 7.6cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Compare the ewer of slightly more squat form in the Victoria and Albert Museum included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, no. 39; and another of this type in the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, included in the Memorial Exhibition, February 13-March 30, 1952, Catalogue, no. 159. Two other of this type were included in the exhibition, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981, Catalogue, pl. 107 (Popper Collection, San Francisco), and 108 (Collection of Dr. Paul Singer)