Lot Essay
A similar frog water coup is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, The British Museum, London, fig. 16, from the Malcolm MacDonald Collection.
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JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
Details
a celadon-glazed figure of a tortoise and a frog water coup
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)
The first naturalistically modelled looking up and with its legs showing below the rim of its honeycomb-pattern shell, all under a pale grey-green glaze stopping around the base; the water coup of compressed spherical shape with incurving rim, the shoulder applied with medium-relief frog's legs, tail and head, all under a pale grey-green celadon glaze pooling to darker green in the incised details, the base with an incised character
the tortoise 2½ in. (6.4 cm.) long, the coup 3 in. (7.7 cm.) wide (2)
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)
The first naturalistically modelled looking up and with its legs showing below the rim of its honeycomb-pattern shell, all under a pale grey-green glaze stopping around the base; the water coup of compressed spherical shape with incurving rim, the shoulder applied with medium-relief frog's legs, tail and head, all under a pale grey-green celadon glaze pooling to darker green in the incised details, the base with an incised character
the tortoise 2½ in. (6.4 cm.) long, the coup 3 in. (7.7 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
E.T. Chow Collection, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 December 1980, lots 213 and 214
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