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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
11.
A TALL VASE
Liao Dynasty (A.D. 907-1125)
Gangwa kilns
of slender baluster form with long cylindrical neck rising to a wide flaring mouth with high galleried rim, covered with a cream-white slip under a clear glossy glaze, the slightly splayed edge of the foot left unglazed and the stoneware body showing a mottled brown color, the recessed base encrusted with sand.
Height 17 5⁄8 inches (44.8 cm)
A very similar white-glazed stoneware vase in the British Museum is illustrated and discussed by Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1991, p. 86, pl. 65, dated by the author to late 9th-early 10th century. The same vase is illustrated by Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 227, pl. 271 and again by Barrett, et. al., The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 5: The British Museum, London, Tokyo, 1974, no. 52.
Another Liao tall white-glazed vase of similar form, discovered in tomb no. 3 at Kulun, Inner Mongolia is illustrated by Wang and Chen in Kulun Liao dai bihua mu (Murals in Liao Dynasty Tombs in Kulun Banner), Beijing, 1989, pl. 24-4, with description on p. 50 and a line drawing on p. 51. Compare also the white-glazed vase of similar form illustrated by Lu, Liao dai taoci (Liao Pottery and Porcelain), Shenyang, 2003, p. 172, no. 4-67.
遼 缸瓦窰白瓷盤口長頸瓶 高 44.8 厘米