J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
26.
A DRUM-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
Song-Jin Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
Jiexiu kilns
perhaps made to hold weiqi game counters, modelled after a barrel-drum with rounded sides tapering down to a raised band above four stylized flowerheads in relief above the ring foot enclosing a countersunk flat base, the close-fitting flat cover completing the shape and decorated with matching flowerheads above a raised collar around the rim, covered inside and out with a transparent glaze over chalk-white slip, except for a ring on the interior base, and the edges of the foot rim and mouth rim, all left unglazed exposing the silvery-gray stoneware.
Height 3 3⁄4 inches (9.5 cm)
A very similar white-glazed stoneware box, lacking the cover, in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, p. 194, no. 337, formerly in the collections of Gustaf Lindberg and Carl Kempe, Stockholm.
Compare also the white-glazed box and cover of closely related form in the Carl Kempe Collection, illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 140, no. 446, described as Dingyao.
宋－金 介休窰白瓷鼓形蓋盒 高 9.5 厘米
26.
A DRUM-SHAPED BOX AND COVER
Song-Jin Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
Jiexiu kilns
Height 3 3⁄4 inches (9.5 cm)