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Lot Essay
Previously sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 October 1992, lot 12.
Archaistic revival during the Song period was evidenced by the production of ceramic vessels imitating archaic bronze shapes. The Emperor Huizong (1101-1126) is known to have built up a collection of ancient bronzes and jades, some 839 of which were published in 1107 as Xuanhe bogu tu. For a discussion, refer to R. Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, pp. 14-15; and R. Scott, 'The Chinese Imperial Collections' in S. Pierson (ed.), Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 20, London, 2000, pp. 19-32.
A very similar example covered in the same glaze of pastel blue-white tone, often referred to by Chinese scholars as 'moon white', in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated in Song Yuan Taoqi Taquan, A Compendium of Song and Yuan Ceramics, pl. 309. Refer to two other junyao vases of the same shape covered with a purple glaze both from the National Palace Museum, illustrated op. cit., pls. 308 and 310. Compare to other 'moon white' vases, a larger version (31.6 cm.) bearing the numeral 'three' incised on the underside, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoqi Quanji: Junyao, vol. 12, published by Shanghai Renmin Chuban She, 1983, no. 12; a vase in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr & Mrs J. M. Hu, pl. 9; and one in the Fogg Art Museum published by J. Cahill, The Art of Southern Song China, pl. 40.
(US$150,000-190,000)
Archaistic revival during the Song period was evidenced by the production of ceramic vessels imitating archaic bronze shapes. The Emperor Huizong (1101-1126) is known to have built up a collection of ancient bronzes and jades, some 839 of which were published in 1107 as Xuanhe bogu tu. For a discussion, refer to R. Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, pp. 14-15; and R. Scott, 'The Chinese Imperial Collections' in S. Pierson (ed.), Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 20, London, 2000, pp. 19-32.
A very similar example covered in the same glaze of pastel blue-white tone, often referred to by Chinese scholars as 'moon white', in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated in Song Yuan Taoqi Taquan, A Compendium of Song and Yuan Ceramics, pl. 309. Refer to two other junyao vases of the same shape covered with a purple glaze both from the National Palace Museum, illustrated op. cit., pls. 308 and 310. Compare to other 'moon white' vases, a larger version (31.6 cm.) bearing the numeral 'three' incised on the underside, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoqi Quanji: Junyao, vol. 12, published by Shanghai Renmin Chuban She, 1983, no. 12; a vase in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr & Mrs J. M. Hu, pl. 9; and one in the Fogg Art Museum published by J. Cahill, The Art of Southern Song China, pl. 40.
(US$150,000-190,000)