A RARE DING SLIP-DECORATED 'LOTUS' BOTTLE VASE

SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

Details

A RARE DING SLIP-DECORATED 'LOTUS' BOTTLE VASE
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
The pear-shaped body is decorated with large dark brown lotus blossoms amongst leafy tendrils, all below stylized petals to the trumpet-shaped neck with white combed decoration.
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm) high

Provenance

Collection of Professor Ferdinando Cappelletti, acquired in Rome in the late 1970s.

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Lot Essay

Two slightly smaller Ding vases from the Northern Song dynasty with the same distinctive sgraffiato technique of brown against white and with combed white decoration include the brown slip-decorated Ding vase (16.3 cm. high) in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol 9., Tokyo, 1981, pl.11; and the brown-slip-decorated Ding vase (18.4 cm. high) sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 March 2002, lot 102.

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