J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
March 15 - April 13, 2013
19.
A QINGBAI GLAZED PORCELAIN EWER AND COVER
Southern Song – Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
of plain spherical form surmounted by a short concave neck, the wide mouth with galleried rim flanked by two small rings applied on the shoulders joined by an incised double-line band running under the arch handle and over the base of the short upright spout, the disc-shaped cover with button knop and applied at one side on top with a small ring for attachment to a corresponding ring at the top of the handle, the exterior of the ewer and cover covered with a glossy translucent glaze of bright aquamarine-blue tone extending down to the edge of the thick ring foot, the slightly recessed base unglazed revealing the white porcelain body.
Height 5 1⁄2 inches (14 cm)
A slightly smaller ewer of similar form, lacking the cover, dated by epitaph to the third year of Kaixi (A.D. 1207), discovered in 1975 at Shangrao city and now in the collection of Jiangxi Provincial Museum is illustrated by Peng (ed.) in Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 70, no. 69.
Another Qingbai ewer of related form, lacking the cover, unearthed from the Dakou kiln site at Pucheng, now in the Fujian Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Fukken tōji (Fujian Ceramics), Kyoto, 1983, no. 82, attributed to the Song dynasty.
南宋 – 元 青白執壺 高 14 厘米
