拍品 7
7
A Rare Small Olive-Glazed Molded Pottery Flask
A Rare Small Olive-Glazed Molded Pottery Flask

NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (550-577)

細節
A Rare Small Olive-Glazed Molded Pottery Flask
Northern Qi dynasty (550-577)
Of flattened ovoid form tapering towards the edges, each side molded with a foreign dancer surrounded by singers and musicians, all within a foliate medallion with outer beaded border, with a pair of small leaf-form handles on the shoulder below the cup-shaped mouth, covered overall with a dark olive-green glaze continuing over the foot to cover the base which has three spur marks
4 3/4in. (12.1cm.) high, box and stand
Falk Collection no. 28.
來源
Walter Weinberger & Co., Ltd., England, June 1952.
展覽
Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects - The Myron S. Falk Collection, Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, 1957, no. 18.
Foreigners in Ancient Chinese Art, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1969, no. 62.
Early Chinese Miniatures, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1977, no. 99.

拍品專文

This type of flask with molded decoration was popular in the Northern Qi period, as has been discussed by He Jiying in 'Xifang yishu dui Wei Jin Nan Song zhao Sui Tang taociqi de yingxiang', Shanghai Bowuguan Jikan, no. 7, 1966, p. 164. The form and decoration of such flasks are influenced by Central Asian vessels and culture. Four flasks similar to the Falk vessel were excavated in 1971 from a Northern Qi tomb belonging to Fan Cui at Anyang, Henan province. The Henan flasks also have decoration depicting a dancer surrounded by musicians, and one is illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan - Taoci juan, Taipei, 1993, p. 114, no. 401. A further flask of this type with green glaze is in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and is illustrated by J. Fontein & T. Wu in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973, p. 148-9, no. 71. Another version of this form, with wider shoulders and higher foot, is in the British Museum, illustrated by S. J. Vainker in Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, British Museum, London, 1991, p. 63, no. 45.