Lot 2815
2815
A RARE XING WHITE-GLAZED FOUR-HANDLED FLASK
A RARE XING WHITE-GLAZED FOUR-HANDLED FLASK
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PROPERTY FROM THE YI LAN TANG COLLECTION
A RARE XING WHITE-GLAZED FOUR-HANDLED FLASK

FIVE DYNASTIES (907-960)

Details
A RARE XING WHITE-GLAZED FOUR-HANDLED FLASK
FIVE DYNASTIES (907-960)
The flask is finely potted with an elongated body indented on two sides, below the four lug-handles each incised with a cross motif, supported on a spreading foot and rising to a columnar neck below a flared mouth, applied to the exterior with a clear glaze of a pale ivory tone, stopping irregularly above the foot revealing the fine, white body.
8. 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Acquired in Hong Kong, 2007

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Lot Essay

Compare to three Xing white-glazed flasks of similar form, also dating to the Five Dynasties. The first is in the Shanghai Museum Collection, the second in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Collection, both illustrated in Xing Kiln of China, Beijing, 2012, p. 378 and 399 respectively. The third was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2016, lot 674.

The result of Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence test no. P107p21 (17 May 2007) is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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