A Small White-Glazed Stoneware Ewer with Lion Handle

TANG DYNASTY, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

Details

A Small White-Glazed Stoneware Ewer with Lion Handle
Tang dynasty, 9th-10th century
The ovoid body raised on a flared solid foot and set on the shoulder with a small conical spout rising from a fluted border and a handle formed by a lion standing on the shoulder as it peers over the everted mouth rim, the white body covered with a white glaze ending in a neat line on the lower body
3 3/4in. (9.5cm.) high, box
Falk Collection no. 160.

Provenance

C.T. Loo, New York, June 1950.

Exhibited

Early Chinese Miniatures, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1977, no. 122.

Lot Essay

A similar ewer with a cream glaze and lion-form handle is illustrated by Y. Mino in Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stonewares in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1974, pl. 67; and another by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain: The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, p. 89, no. 73. Another example from the H.J. Oppenheim collection is illustrated by R.L. Hobson. et al, in Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, p. 40, fig. 82.

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