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拍品专文
A few rare models of granaries with qingbai glaze were made at the Jingdezhen kilns during the Song dynasty, a particularly fine example of which is offered in this sale, lot 102. Models of buildings of any type among Longquan celadons are even rarer. A much more simple, round, Longquan celadon jar-shaped building with single roof is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 183, where it is dated to the Southern Song dynasty, 13th century. This cylindrical building shares with the Falk example very similar structures around the door and similar approach to the depiction of the roof. The Boston piece, however, has none of the Falk piece's additional architectural details. In the publication the Boston example is described as a 'jar in the shape of a pagoda as ash container'. If this is an ash container, it seems odd that it bears no dedicatory inscription.
Nevertheless, both the Falk and the Boston constructions were obviously intended to house something of great value or reverence, since their moveable doors are held in place by support brackets and have rings to one side allowing them to be secured. It seems possible that the Falk piece is a reliquary. Two excavated sancai-glazed ceramic reliquaries of Song/Jin date have been published. One, which is constructed like an elaborate shrine, was excavated from a pagoda in the Fahai temple in Mixian, Henan, and was inscribed with a date equivalent to AD 998, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Sung, Tokyo, 1977, no. 128. The other, excavated in 1976 from the Lingshou Qilin Hall by the side of the Yuzhu Temple, Hebei province, bears a date equivalent to AD 1211, and is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan - Taoci juan, Taipei, 1993, p. 172, no. 588. Although the Hebei reliquary is hexagonal, rather than rectangular, it shares with the Falk piece a double roof topped with a pearl-shaped finial, eave brackets, a single door and a raised platform.
The only other comparable piece, which is only slightly smaller than the Falk building, is the famous underglaze red and blue granary made at Jingdezhen for the tomb of Madam Ling and dated by inscription to the equivalent of AD 1338. This granary is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 38, no. 7. The Ling structure is rectangular, two-storied and has additional pillars and surrounding balustrade, like the Falk example. However, it does not have a moveable door, for it was only intended to represent a granary, not to contain grain. The purpose of the Ling piece is identified by its inscriptions, and it may be that the Falk model was intended to serve a similar function. Nevertheless, the door construction on the Falk building does suggest that something precious was to be placed within it, and so its possible use as a reliquary must be seriously considered.
A slightly less sophisticated model with degraded glaze, but of similar shape and roof structure to the Falk example, but without steps or balustrade, is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated by M. Tregear in Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 181, no. 252, where it is dated to the Southern Song dynasty, 12th century. Another rectangular Longquan celadon building, similar to the Falk example, but with elevated second roof and missing its door, was sold in Hong Kong, 5th November 1997, lot 1385.
Nevertheless, both the Falk and the Boston constructions were obviously intended to house something of great value or reverence, since their moveable doors are held in place by support brackets and have rings to one side allowing them to be secured. It seems possible that the Falk piece is a reliquary. Two excavated sancai-glazed ceramic reliquaries of Song/Jin date have been published. One, which is constructed like an elaborate shrine, was excavated from a pagoda in the Fahai temple in Mixian, Henan, and was inscribed with a date equivalent to AD 998, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Sung, Tokyo, 1977, no. 128. The other, excavated in 1976 from the Lingshou Qilin Hall by the side of the Yuzhu Temple, Hebei province, bears a date equivalent to AD 1211, and is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan - Taoci juan, Taipei, 1993, p. 172, no. 588. Although the Hebei reliquary is hexagonal, rather than rectangular, it shares with the Falk piece a double roof topped with a pearl-shaped finial, eave brackets, a single door and a raised platform.
The only other comparable piece, which is only slightly smaller than the Falk building, is the famous underglaze red and blue granary made at Jingdezhen for the tomb of Madam Ling and dated by inscription to the equivalent of AD 1338. This granary is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 38, no. 7. The Ling structure is rectangular, two-storied and has additional pillars and surrounding balustrade, like the Falk example. However, it does not have a moveable door, for it was only intended to represent a granary, not to contain grain. The purpose of the Ling piece is identified by its inscriptions, and it may be that the Falk model was intended to serve a similar function. Nevertheless, the door construction on the Falk building does suggest that something precious was to be placed within it, and so its possible use as a reliquary must be seriously considered.
A slightly less sophisticated model with degraded glaze, but of similar shape and roof structure to the Falk example, but without steps or balustrade, is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated by M. Tregear in Song Ceramics, London, 1982, p. 181, no. 252, where it is dated to the Southern Song dynasty, 12th century. Another rectangular Longquan celadon building, similar to the Falk example, but with elevated second roof and missing its door, was sold in Hong Kong, 5th November 1997, lot 1385.