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
48.
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BROWN-GLAZED BOTTLE-VASE
(YUHUCHUN PING)
Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1115-1234)
of Cizhou type, the pear-shaped vessel with tall tapering neck and trumpet mouth covered inside and out with a dark purplish-brown glaze decorated with three rows of large brushed-on splashes of russet-brown, and with smaller touches of russet-brown around the inside of the mouth rim, the rounded base raised on a wide ring foot, the underside unglazed revealing the gray stoneware.
Height 11 1⁄4 inches (28.5 cm)
A similar vase is published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, no. 618, p.154; and another similar example in the collection of the Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition at the Osaka Municipal Museum entitled Sō Gen no bijutsu (The Arts of the Song and Yuan), Tokyo, 1980, fig. 184.
金 褐釉醬斑玉壺春瓶 高 28.5 厘米
