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
28.
A QINGBAI GLAZED PORCELAIN COVERED WINE EWER
AND WARMING BASIN
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
the ewer with gently rounded cylindrical body, canted shoulder and tall tubular neck with very slightly flared lipless rim, fitted with a dished cover with bud finial applied with a small ring for attachment to a matching ring at the top of the high arching handle rising opposite the long slender curving spout, with an incised leaf tip at the base of the spout and another at the base of the handle, the body decorated with thick and thin incised horizontal bands, covered with a translucent glossy glaze of light aquamarine tone continuing over the flat base, with four lightly burnt areas from kiln supports around the edge of the base, the warming bowl with very slightly flaring straight sides carved in high relief with three rows of overlapping slender pointed petals, resting on a high ring foot enclosing a countersunk base, covered inside and out with a glossy glaze of stronger aquamarine tone continuing over the foot and recessed base, the straight rim wiped clean of glaze revealing the fine white porcelain.
Overall height 7 5⁄8 inches (19.4 cm)
Height of Ewer 7 inches (17.8 cm)
Height of Basin 4 1⁄2 inches (11.4 cm)
This type of Qingbai glazed wine ewer with close-fitting deep bowl for hot water to keep the wine warm is well known from Song dynasty paintings and tomb murals, but complete porcelain examples are rare.
The form and decoration varies widely, but related Qingbai ewers and warming bowls in museum collections are published. Compare, for example, the covered ewer of related form with carved peony decoration illustrated by Tseng and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Vol. II, Boston, 1972, no. 78; and a Qingbai glazed ewer similar to the present example but with lobed body illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Museum Collection, Tokyo 1987, no. 417. A Qingbai glazed deep bowl with straight sides similarly decorated with overlapping pointed petals on the exterior is illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 163, no. 528.
北宋 青白執壺及溫酒碗托
通高 19.4 厘米 執壺高 17.8 厘米 碗托高 11.4 厘米
