NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

細節

A Rare Small Yaozhou Carved Jar
Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
The deep upright sides well-carved with seven petal-shaped panels with inner serrated edges, with a small leaf tip separating the petals just below the edge of the canted shoulder carved further up with a scalloped border at the base of the waisted neck, covered with a translucent glaze of celadon tone thinning on the raised areas and continuing over the mouth rim and down to the edge of the foot ring to expose the ware burnt brown in the firing, the base covered with a thin glaze wash
3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) high, box

拍品專文

Yaozhou jars of this design and form are very rare. A slightly taller jar of this design from the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, is illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 31, no. 33, and by F. Koyama, Toji Taikei 36 Seiji, Tokyo, 1978, p. 106, fig. 35. A very similar jar (possibly the same jar mentioned above) is illustrated by J. Wirgin, 'Sung Ceramic Designs', B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 7 (b). A jar of similar squat proportions, but carved with peony scroll, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1977, vol. 12, fig. 25.