A RARE WHITE-GLAZED EWER

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED EWER
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
The ewer has a deep, rounded body raised on a flared foot, incised with single lines above and below the sharp edge of the canted shoulder, with a tall, slender curved spout set opposite a looped strap handle attached to the narrow cylindrical neck, covered with a translucent, pale blue tinged glaze pooling to darker tone in the recesses.
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1980s or before

Exhibited

Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Sosoku Utsuwa [Pouring Vessles], Izumi, 1986, p. 53, cat no. 94
Fukuyama Castle Museum, 70 Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Porcelain, 21 Oct to 26 Nov 1989, p.27, no. 27

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Please note the estimate of this lot is HK$200,000-300,000
此拍品的估價為HK$200,000-300,000

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Lot Essay

The form of this ewer, with its angular profile, is modelled after metalworks that entered China from Central Asia. Compare to a Ding ewer of very similar shape, but with carved decorations in the Musee Guimet in Paris, dating to late 10th century to early 11th century, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Song, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 133. Ewers of this form were also fired at the Yaozhou kilns. Refer to a Yaozhou ewer of similar form, dating to early 11th century, formerly in the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated ibid., pl. 184; and another Yaozhou example in the Yaozhou Museum in Shaanxi, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: Yaozhouyao, 1985, pl. 17.

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