J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty
March 18 - April 8, 2002
15.
A PLAIN DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
of well potted ovoid form with wide mouth encircled by a square-cut lipped rim above a short, slightly tapered neck, with generously rounded shoulders and swelling sides tapering down to a very shallow ring foot enclosing the flat base, covered inside and out with a transparent glaze of creamy tone, gathering in characteristic “tear marks” in a few areas on the exterior and interior, the edge of the foot left unglazed showing the very fine white porcelain body.
Height 8 inches (20.3 cm)
Compare the plain Dingyao jar of related form but smaller size in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by Hobson in The Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Korean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1925, vol. III, pl. XXVIII, no. C138, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated again by Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 80. Another smaller Dingyao jar, formerly in the Collection of H. M. Knight and now in the Collection of Robert Barron is illustrated in the catalogue of the traveling exhibition of the Barron Collection by Rotondo-McCord, entitled Heaven and Earth Seen Within, New Orleans, 2000, p. 42-43, no. 6.
15.
A PLAIN DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
Height 8 inches (20.3 cm)