A Straw-Glazed Pottery Kundika

TANG DYNASTY, 7TH CENTURY

细节

A Straw-Glazed Pottery Kundika
Tang dynasty, 7th century
Based on a metal prototype, with ovoid body raised on a spreading pedestal foot, the short spout with cup-shaped rim, and the slender neck rising to a stepped collar below the ribbed and tapered spout, the finely crackled and degraded glaze ending above the foot
10 5/8in. (27cm.) high
Falk Collection no. 36.

拍品专文

The shape of this bottle is based on a Buddhist ritual vessel that was carried by itinerant Buddhist monks and used to hold water for drinking or ritual cleansing of the hands. A similar transparent-glazed kundika is illustrated by Y. Mino, Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stonewares in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1974, p. 63, no. 48. Compare, also, the kundika covered with a different glaze in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by W. Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art from neolithic pottery to modern architecture, London, 1958, no. 164.