FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (907-1127)

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A YAOZHOU CARVED ‘PEONY’ EWER
FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (907-1127)
The ewer is carved in relief with a broad peony band, applied to the shoulder with a lion-form spout and strap handle, covered overall with a densely crackled glaze of pale celadon tone with the exception of the foot ring revealing the pale grey body.
8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) high, box

Literature

Tan Dan-jiong, History of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Taipei, 1985, p. 503

Exhibited

Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika (Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1992, no. 19

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Lot Essay

Ewers of the present form with decorations finely carved in high relief are among the earliest celadon wares produced in the Yaozhou kilns at Huangbao county, Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province. Sherds of ewers with similar glaze and form were found in the Five Dynasties-Early Northern Song Strata at the Yaozhou kiln sites including a restored ewer of very similar form and decoration, illustrated in Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka (eds), The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Tokyo, 1997, p. 106, no. 143. A very well-known Yaozhou ‘inverted’ ewer is in the Shaanxi History Museum, illustrated in ibid., pp. 26-27, no. 28, which is very similar in form and decoration to the present ewer, but is designed to be filled from the base, showing the technical achievement of early Yaozhou wares.

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