YUAN AND MING CERAMICS PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARILYN BURNETT ROSS, PLEASANT RIDGE, MICHIGAN

AN UNUSUAL WHITE-GLAZED EWER AND COVER

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

細節

AN UNUSUAL WHITE-GLAZED EWER AND COVER
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
Of qingbai type, the compressed globular body supported on a thick ring foot, the short spout applied with rounded eyes and with coiled upper lip to form the head of the dragon that forms the arched handle, with a slightly domed, knopped cover incised with concentric bands, covered overall in a pale blue-tinged glaze
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high

來源

Sotheby's, New York, 19 March 1997, lot 213.

拍品專文

For a Song dynasty prototype of this form, see Yang Xin, Li Yihua and Xu Naixiang, The Art of the Dragon, Boston, 1988, p. 82, no. 60, where a qingbai globular ewer with a dragon head as a spout, and its body as the handle, is illustrated. A Yuan ewer covered with a white glaze with a slight bluish tinge and surmounted by a dragon forming both the handle and the spout, is in the Musée Guimet, Michel Calmann Collection, no. 416, and is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1976, no. 14.