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
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A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN SHALLOW BOWL
Tang / Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
of plain circular form, the interior with concave center and rounded walls in a continuous curve, with a half-round moulded lip under the rim, the exterior of the flaring sides rising from a very narrow angled base around the broad flat bi-disc shaped ring foot, covered inside and out with a transparent glaze of very pale bluish tint, the foot and recessed base left unglazed and the exposed white porcelain burnt slight pinkish-buff in the firing.
Diameter 5 7⁄8 inches (15 cm)
From the Collection of Professor Max Loehr (1903-1991), acquired in Beijing in the early 1940’s
A white porcelain bowl of very similar form and slightly smaller size in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanj:, Jin Tang Ciqi (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties), Vol. 31, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 96, p. 107, described as Tang Ding ware.
A very similar white porcelain bowl is illustrated by Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 323, p. 109, described as Tang Xingyao. The same bowl is illustrated again in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Tokyo, 1982, fig. 60.
Another shallow bowl of this type in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., is illustrated by Knapp in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 9, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 23.
唐 / 五代 白瓷碗 徑 15 厘米
4.
A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN SHALLOW BOWL
Tang / Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
Diameter 5 7⁄8 inches (15 cm)