J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
March 15 - April 13, 2013
22.
A QINGBAI GLAZED IRON-BROWN SPLASHED PORCELAIN
DRAGON-FORM BRUSHREST
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127-1279)
the dragon with pointed snout, forked horns and long mane shown crouching with back arched and tail curled on a flat rectangular base, the body impressed with scales and with a row of spikes applied on the spine, covered with a translucent glaze of pale bluish tone liberally splashed with dark iron-brown, the base left plain and the underside wiped clean of glaze, showing the dense white porcelain.
Length 5 3⁄4 inches (14.6 cm)
A very similarly modelled Qingbai glazed porcelain dragon excavated at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi from a Northern Song tomb dated to the second year of Zhiping, corresponding to A.D. 1065 is illustrated by Addis, Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs and Some Other Dated Material: a Handbook, London, 1978, p. 24, pl. 15b.
南宋 青白褐斑龍形筆架 長 14.6 厘米
