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
12.
A CARVED YAOZHOU CELADON VASE
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
of rare meiping form, with barrel-rounded sides, flat plain shoulders, short cylindrical neck and well-finished everted lip, the sides boldly carved with four stylized baoxiang blossoms shown alternately in profile and fully in the round, all borne on a continuous scrolling stem sprouting dense curly leafage, above a band of tall pointed and rounded petal-lappets rising to fill the tapered lower section of the vase, the small ring foot with splayed edge, covered inside and out with an attractive sea-green glaze with lustrous surface, the glaze thinning to pale tan over the raised areas to highlight the carving and continuing over the recessed base, the edge of the footrim left unglazed revealing the pale grayish stoneware body.
Height 5 1⁄4 inches (13.3 cm)
No other Yaozhou vase of this special form appears to have been published, but a smaller Yaozhou vessel of globular form carved with the same leafy baoxiang scroll sprouting four alternately rising and falling blossoms, from the Ataka collection, now in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition entitled The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, no.34, p. 31.
北宋 耀州青磁刻花牡丹紋瓶 高 13.3 厘米
