J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection
March 28 - April 16, 2005
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A TALL WHITE-GLAZED STONEWARE VASE
Liao Dynasty (A.D. 916–1125)
of well-potted baluster form, with splayed foot and swelling shoulders, the tall cylindrical neck surmounted by a wide cup-shaped mouth with flaring sides divided into five petal lobes, the high-fired gray stoneware body covered with a chalk white slip under a clear glaze, unevenly applied and ending just short of the chamfered edge of the foot, the base recessed and unglazed.
Height 17 3⁄4 inches (45.1 cm)
The tall, elegant silhouette of this vase and its lobed cup-shaped mouth are both characteristics of Liao pottery, and a wide variety of similar green and amber glazed vessels of related form are known. No other white glazed stoneware vase of this form appears to have been previously recorded but two white glazed ewers of very closely related form have been published: one from the Carl Kempe collection, illustrated by Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 385, p. 124; and the other in the Royal Ontario Museum included in the 1973 China House Gallery exhibition, illustrated by Mino in catalogue entitled Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty: North and South of the Great Wall, New York, 1973, no. 39, p. 65.
遼 白釉瓶 高 45.1 厘米
