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
47.
A YUE WARE EWER WITH ENGRAVED DECORATION
Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
the almost spherical body with straight cylindrical neck and raised on a well-finished ring foot with slightly splayed edge, the double-stranded strap handle formed as a high arch and applied opposite the slender upward-curving spout set high on the shoulders, the steeply rounded sides decorated with four matching floral medallions separated by pairs of foliate sprays, with freely drawn scrollwork bands around the top of the shoulders and at the base of the neck, and with foliate motifs on the spout and handle, the decoration all engraved in a loose linear style under a pale translucent olive-green glaze continuing over the foot and covering the recessed base, with encrusted spurs of clay from the kiln supports remaining on the base.
Height 6 5⁄8 inches (16.8 cm)
Compare the plain Yueyao ewer of similar form, excavated in 1985 from Cixi city, Zhejiang province, illustrated Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Tang Wudai (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Tang and Five Dynasties), Vol. 6, Shanghai, 2000, no. 164, p. 160. Another Yueyao ewer and cover of very similar form and with similar engraved medallions and foliate motifs under a degraded glaze, excavated in 1975 from Zhengjiang, Jiangsu province, is illustrated op. cit., no. 147, p. 148.
Compare also the Yueyao ewer of very similar form, engraved with twin parrot medallions and foliate scroll decoration, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 78, no. 72A.
五代 越窯刻花執壺 高 16.8 厘米
