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 ‘TORTOISE-SHELL’-BROWN-GLAZED VASE (MEIPING)
Song Dynasty, A.D. 12th–13th Century
the slender tapering vase with high rounded shoulders and short narrow neck rising to a small mouth with rounded rolled-out lip rim, covered with a lustrous glaze of dark reddish-brown color splashed over a golden-tan-colored ground resulting in a random mottled pattern closely imitating tortoise-shell, the flat base of the footring wiped clean before firing, revealing the dense gray stoneware body.
Height 7 3⁄4 inches (19.7 cm)
Compare the smaller stoneware vase illustrated in the catalogue published by the Guangzhou City Cultural Bureau, Black Porcelain from the Mr. & Mrs. Yeung Wing Tak Collection, Guangzhou, 1997, p. 142, no. 6a, attributed by the authors to the Tushan kilns in Sichuan province.
宋 玳瑁釉梅瓶 高 19.7 厘米
