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
25.
A GUANYAO BOTTLE-VASE
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127-1279)
of thinly potted pear shape with tall cylindrical neck, the mouth with a raised collar around the exterior rim, the swelling body supported on a high wide foot with splayed sides, covered inside and out with a thick greenish-gray glaze suffused with a pale ice-crackle throughout, the glaze continuing over the flat recessed base, the footrim unglazed, showing the fine gray stoneware body fired very dark where exposed.
Height 7 1⁄2 inches (19 cm)
Published:
Mowry, ‘Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L.Gordon,’ Orientations, March 2004, fig. 4, p.117
Compare the guanyao bottle vase of similar profile illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition Mostra d’Arte Cinese: Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo (Exhibition of Chinese Art: The Seventh Centenary of Marco Polo), Venice, 1954, no. 450, p. 129, from the collection of Sir Herbert and Lady Ingram.
In his discussion of the Gordon guanyao bottle in Orientations article, Mowry says that despite recent archaeological discoveries and ongoing research, evidence for attribution of particular guan examples to particular kilns remains scarce and proposes the Jiaotanxia kilns near Hangzhou, Zhejiang province as the place where the Gordon vase may have been produced.
南宋 官窯長頸瓶 高 19 厘米
