A RARE CIZHOU TEADUST-GLAZED LOTUS BUD-FORM WATERPOT

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

細節

A RARE CIZHOU TEADUST-GLAZED LOTUS BUD-FORM WATERPOT
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The full ovoid body tapering towards the mouth rim, covered inside and out with a finely mottled dark olive-brown matte glaze that falls short of the flared shallow foot exposing a purplish-brown wash that covers the lower body, foot and base
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high, box

來源

C.T. Loo & Co., New York, Exhibition of Chinese Arts, 1 November 1941 - 30 April 1942, no. 604.
Warren E. Cox, New York, 1 April 1966.

展覽

Huntsville Museum of Art, The Art of China and Japan, 1977, no. 44a.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 36.

拍品專文

The semi-lustrous olive-brown glaze on this striking vessel, commonly referred to as 'teadust', first appeared in the seventh century and gained popularity during the Song, Jin and Yuan periods. Such glazes are a variant of dark-brown glazes, created through the slight underfiring of the wares.

A similar jar with a slightly wider mouth opening is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, no. 443, where the author describes the fine speckling in the glaze as being "lighter tea-dust suffusions". See, also, the similar jar illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 266. Another example from the Falk Collection was sold in these rooms, 20 September 2001, lot 76.