J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics A.D. 400–1400:
Selections from an American Collection
March 19 - 31, 2007
11.
A WHITE GLAZED PORCELAIN PEAR-SHAPED VASE (YUHUCHUNPING)
Song Dynasty, A.D. 12th Century
of elegant plain form, with tall slender neck and flaring mouth, resting on a knife-cut ring foot enclosing the deeply recessed base, covered with a clear glaze of pale ivory tone applied over a thin layer of white slip, the footrim and base left unglazed revealing the fine white porcelain.
Height 11 3⁄4 inches (29.8 cm)
A very similar vase from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Jubilee Exhibition of the Oriental Ceramic Society of London and illustrated in the O.C.S. catalogue, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, no. 57, p. 79, pl. 40. The same vase is illustrated by Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, pl. 63. Another tall pear-shaped vase of this type in the Hakone Art Museum, Japan, is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, no. 637, p. 211. Compare also the vase of this type with a very slightly flaring narrow cylindrical neck and lipped rim in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in the catalogue of The Charles B. Hoyt Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1952, no. 349, p. 88.
A similar pear-shaped white porcelain vase excavated in Xiangfen county, Shanxi province, and now in the Shanxi Provincial Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Song I, Vol. 7 (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Song I), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 216, p. 210, with caption on p. 284.
