A Dark-Olive-Brown-Glazed Stoneware Ewer

TANG DYNASTY, 8TH-9TH CENTURY

細節

A Dark-Olive-Brown-Glazed Stoneware Ewer
Tang dynasty, 8th-9th century
Probably from the Tongchuan kiln, the tapering ovoid body applied on the high shoulder with a short conical spout and a double-strap handle rising to the everted rim, covered inside and out with an opaque glaze of finely speckled 'teadust' color thinning on the raised edges to russet and stopping in a neat line above the shallow, spreading foot with flat base
8 3/4in. (22.2cm.) high, box and stand
Falk Collection no. 17.

來源

Edward T. Chow Collection.
John Sparks, London, January 1965.

展覽

Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums; New York, China Institute Gallery; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, 1995-1997, no. 6.

拍品專文

The chayemo or 'tea-dust' style of glaze first appeared during the 7th century, and was, along with brown and black wares, one of the main products of the kilns at Huangpu in Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province. Yaozhou was later famed as the region responsible for producing the celadon glazes of the Song period, the forerunners of which were dark-glazed wares exemplified by the present lot. A ewer with the same ovoid form and tea-dust glaze excavated from Tang period strata at the Yaozhou kilns in Tongchuan is illustrated by the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology in Tangdai Huangpu yaozhi, Beijing, 1992, vol. 1, p. 182, fig. 95, and p. 515, fig. 284 (C), and vol. 2, pl. 74, nos. 1 and 2. See, also Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, pp. 90-91, for a discussion concerning the characteristics of dark-glazed wares produced at Huangpu during the Tang period.

Ewers of this type first appeared during the Sui dynasty (518-618). By Tang times the basic ewer-form may also have been inspired by metalwork examples. These vessels would typically have been used to hold hot water which would then be poured into tea bowls with powdered tea.