AN UNUSUAL GLAZED WHITE STONEWARE 'COCKSCOMB' FLASK
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AN UNUSUAL GLAZED WHITE STONEWARE 'COCKSCOMB' FLASK

LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL GLAZED WHITE STONEWARE 'COCKSCOMB' FLASK
LIAO DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
The flask is molded in imitation of leather prototypes with a cylindrical spout and a ruyi-head-shaped flange pierced with a suspension hole, the edges outlined with applied strips of clay to simulate sewn gussets, and is covered overall with a white slip and a transparent, ivory-tinged glaze stopping at the flat, unglazed base exposing the white body.
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
来源
Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Song: A Japanese Collection; Sotheby's London, 11 May, 2011, lot 8.
出版
Sōji : shinpin to yobareta yakimono (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, 1999, p. 154, no. 114.
展览
So ji (Song Ceramics), Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, 6 March -13 April 1999; Osaka, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 25 April -13 June 1999; Haji, Hagi Uragami Museum, 20 June - 15 August 1999.

拍品专文

Stoneware and earthenware flasks of this type are based on the leather water flasks used by the Khitan people of the Liao dynasty. The angular shape of the present flask and its white stoneware body are quite unusual. An almost identical flask of the exact same size, excavated from the tomb of a Liao Prince, is illustrated in Ryo no toji (Liao Dynasty Ceramics), Heihonsha, Tokyo, 1960, p. 9, fig. 10.
Another very similar flask is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 390-91, no. 177, where it is described as Gangwa ware, Chifeng. Other flasks comparable in workmanship to the present flask have been found in royal Liao tombs such as a tomb datable to AD 959 at Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, illustrated by Liu Tao, Song Liao Jin jinian ciqi (Dated Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin Periods), Beijing, 2004, p. 68, figs. 4-7, and col. pl. 25. The distinctive shape of the flange of these flasks is considered to be reminiscent of a cockscomb.

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