Lot 1002
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A RARE SMALL DING MELON-SHAPED EWER
A RARE SMALL DING MELON-SHAPED EWER
A RARE SMALL DING MELON-SHAPED EWER
A RARE SMALL DING MELON-SHAPED EWER
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Property from The Art Institute of Chicago, Sold to Enhance the Asian Art Collection and Care
A RARE SMALL DING MELON-SHAPED EWER

SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)

Details
A RARE SMALL DING MELON-SHAPED EWER
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
6 3⁄8 in. (16.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Stanley Herzman (1906-2001) Collection, Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1997.
Exhibited
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chinese Ceramics and Lacquers: The Stanley Herzman Collection, May-September 1997.

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Lot Essay

A Song dynasty Ding ewer with a similar handle was excavated in 1973 at Xiyanchuan village, Quyang county, and is published in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China – 3 – Hebei, Beijing, 2008, no. 140. Another Ding ewer with similar carved and impressed appliques dated to the Song dynasty is illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang gutaoci ziliao xuancui (Selected Materials on Ancient Ceramics from the Collection of the Palace Museum), Volume 1, Beijing, 2005, p. 103, no. 81.

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