J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection

March 28 - April 16, 2005

51.
A CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON JAR WITH FOLIATE MOUTH (ZUN)

Northern Song Dynasty, circa A.D. 11th Century

boldly carved around the slightly flattened globular body with a wide band of peony blossoms, below a band of half-peony motifs encircling the slightly tapered tall neck, the wide flaring mouth with undulating rounded lip forming an elegant foliate rim, the rounded base supported on a high ring foot, covered all over in a fine translucent bright olive-green glaze, the footrim left unglazed at the edge revealing the gray stoneware body burnt reddish-brown in the firing.

Height 3 78 inches (9.8 cm)

A similarly decorated Yaozhou jar of this form, excavated in 1981 from the Yaozhou kiln site in Lujiayai, Huangbaozhen, Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province, and now in the Yao Zhou Ware Museum, was included in the 1997 travelling exhibition and illustrated in the catalogue, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 107, no. 145, with another related example from a private Japanese collection, with petal panels on the neck and pierced foot illustrated on p. 30, no. 32.

Two related Yaozhou jars are illustrated by Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 3d, from the Buffalo Museum of Science, and pl. 7d, excavated at Xi’an, Shaanxi province. Compare also the Yaozhou jar of related form, decorated with scallop-edged petal panels, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and illustrated by Valenstein in the catalogue, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 82, no. 76; in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, So Gen no Bijutsu (Arts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties), Tokyo, 1980, pl. 95; and another example with upright panels forming the neck, in the Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated by Mino and Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, p. 144, no. 54.

北宋   耀州青瓷刻花尊  高 9.8 厘米  徑 11.7 厘米