LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY

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A Green-Glazed Stoneware Ewer
Liao dynasty, 10th century
The sides decorated with five carved shell-shaped appliques within 'fish egg' borders, below a band of applied leaf tips pendent from a triple incised band and repeated on the high shoulder below the neck, with a short, curved spout and a strap handle surmounted by a small loop, covered overall with a thin, finely crackled green glaze continuing into the neck and over the foot rim
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high, box
Falk Collection no. 18.

Provenance

Walter Hochstadter, New York, August 1942.

Exhibited

On loan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965 (L65.46.14).
Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty, North and South of the Great Wall, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1973, no. 56.
The Arts of China, Long Island University, C. W. Post Gallery, 1977, no. 91.

Lot Essay

In the early Liao period, 10th century, a number of small ewers and jars were made with either copper-green or amber glazes covering distinctive incised and applied decoration. Very similar decoration to that seen on the current ewer can be seen on another green ewer of pear-shaped profile in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The San Francisco ewer, which is illustrated by M. Medley in T'ang Pottery & Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 136, no. 134, shares with the Falk green ewer the same leaf-like appliques, and the same roundels.

p. 54, no. 27.

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