A DARK AMBER-GLAZED OVOID EWER

LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY

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A DARK AMBER-GLAZED OVOID EWER
LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY
The body is decorated with two bands of applied pendent leaf-like appliques above three small medallions, and has a reel-shaped neck, and a grooved strap handle set opposite the conical spout. The vessel is covered with a transparent glaze of deep amber color that falls irregularly onto the slightly spreading foot.
6 5/8 in. (17 cm.) high, box

Provenance

The Ruth Dreyfus Collection, Paris, March 1970.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
Else Sackler Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, London, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, 1960, pl. 46, no. 122.

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Lot Essay

In the early Liao period, 10th century, a number of small ewers and jars were made with either amber or copper-green glazes covering distinctive incised and applied decoration. Leaf-like appliques similar to those on the present ewer can be seen on a green-glazed ewer of similar shape in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery & Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 136, no. 134, as well as on two ewers of Liao date in the Falk Collection sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 2001, lots 29 and 30.

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