A RARE AND UNUSUAL SMALL GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD WATER POT

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A RARE AND UNUSUAL SMALL GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD WATER POT
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
Of globular form with narrow, rounded mouth rim, covered all over in a crackled glaze of pale greyish-green tone stopping short of the bottom of the tapered feet to expose the buff grey ware
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Warren E. Cox.

Exhibited

Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 24.
On loan to the Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010.

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Lot Essay

Compare two similar waterpots of this unusual footed form, called Guanyao, and dated Southern Song: one with a short neck, illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 60, no. 134, and subsequently sold at Sotheby's, London, 14 May 2008, lot 307; the other from the collection of Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, also with a short neck, as well as a waterdropper, sold Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1968, lot 109.

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