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
21.
A QINGBAI IRON-SPOTTED ‘RICE MEASURE’
Southern Song – Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
of globular form with wide mouth and rolled rim, combed with concentric basket-weave lines below a horizontal band of rounded bosses dotted in iron-brown at the base of the plain short neck, covered inside and out with a translucent sky-blue glaze, the small flat base left unglazed, the white porcelain body showing a ring of reddish-brown from the kiln support, and with an indecipherable character incised on the base.
Height 3 3⁄4 inches (9.5 cm)
A similar iron-spotted Qingbai jar of smaller size is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, p. 333, no. 621, where the author cites an example with raised knobs instead of brown spots excavated at Xishi village, Quanjiao county, Anhui province, from the Northern Song tomb of Zhang Zhihe who died in A.D. 1089 and was buried in 1092, illustrated in Wenwu, 1988, No. 11, pl. 6, fig. 6, and p. 68, fig. 7-7.
Another similar example, also of smaller size, from the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, now at the University of Sussex, is illustrated by Pierson (ed.) in Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002, pp. 174-175, no. 93.
南宋 – 元 青白缽 高 9.5 厘米
