Lot Essay
Compare the very similar bottle and cover with carved decoration under the glaze included in the exhibition, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 22 July - 11 September 1994, no. 105. See, also, the similar qingbai bottle and cover, without decoration, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 2006, no. 1590. The collection also includes two other bottles of this rare shape in different wares; one, brown 'Ding', no. 1439, the other carved Yaozhou celadon, no. 1489, also with a cover. Both are dated Northern Song or Jin dynasty. A Yue ware example, without a cover, dated Tang/Five Dynasties is illustrated in In Pursuit of Antiquities, Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 22 December 1995 - 18 February 1996, no. 79.