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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES E. BREECE III
A GROUP OF QINGBAI VESSELS
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Details
A GROUP OF QINGBAI VESSELS
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The group comprises a small ewer with rounded sides carved with narrow vertical bands, a small melon-form box and cover, a small box and cover molded on the cover with blossoming prunus, and a box and cover molded with a leafy branch and molded with lobed sides. All are covered with a glaze of pale aqua color.
The ewer 5 in. (12.6 cm.) wide, one cloth box
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The group comprises a small ewer with rounded sides carved with narrow vertical bands, a small melon-form box and cover, a small box and cover molded on the cover with blossoming prunus, and a box and cover molded with a leafy branch and molded with lobed sides. All are covered with a glaze of pale aqua color.
The ewer 5 in. (12.6 cm.) wide, one cloth box
Provenance
The ewer:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Warren E. Cox Collection.
Concordia House Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2007, lot 144 (part).
The box and cover with lobed sides:
L. Y. Lee, New York.
Corcordia House Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2007, lot 144 (part).
The box with prunus flowers:
Eskenazi, London.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Warren E. Cox Collection.
Concordia House Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2007, lot 144 (part).
The box and cover with lobed sides:
L. Y. Lee, New York.
Corcordia House Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2007, lot 144 (part).
The box with prunus flowers:
Eskenazi, London.
Literature
The ewer and the box and cover with lobed sides:
B. Monroe, Chinese Ceramics from Chicago Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1982, nos. 32 and 31 respectively.
B. Monroe, Chinese Ceramics from Chicago Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1982, nos. 32 and 31 respectively.
Exhibited