J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
11.
A CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON LOBED JAR
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
the ovoid body divided into twelve shallow lobes and freely carved with full-blown peony blossoms on leafy stems in an all-over pattern filling the gently rounded sides below the short neck with straight sides decorated with a band of petal motifs between line borders and rising to a wide mouth with lipped rim, joined to the body by a pair of fluted loop handles arching over the narrow shoulders, the sturdy ring foot with flat unglazed rim, the vessel covered inside and out with a glossy translucent olive-green glaze.
Height 7 inches (17.8 cm)
No other Yaozhou jar of this rare form and design appears to have been published, but a smaller plain Yaozhou jar with twelve-lobed body and twin loop handles rising from narrow shoulders to a taller neck is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition entitled The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, no. 71, p. 55.
Another plain lobed jar of similar form and size excavated from the Huangpu town kiln site near Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Song Dai Yaozhou Yao Zhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, fig. 137, no. 9, p. 274.
北宋 耀州青磁刻花瓜稜雙耳罐 高 17.8 厘米
