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
33.
A SMALL YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN EWER AND COVER
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
the bulbous body divided into ten lobes and moulded with a half-round medial ridge, the plain neck with flaring mouth, joined to the shoulder by a high arched handle with moulded edges, opposite a slender tapering spout, the domed lid also moulded with ten lobes below a bud-shaped finial and applied with a ring at one side, corresponding to a matching ring at the top of the handle, the vessel and lid covered with a translucent pale blue glaze which pools to bright aquamarine color in the recesses, the slightly concave rimless base unglazed showing the fine white porcelain body.
Height 6 inches (15.3 cm)
Song Yingqing ewers of closely related form are recorded in several museums, but no other example of this elaborate ten-lobed form appears to have been published.
A larger Yingqing ewer of similar form, with eight-lobed body and less elaborate cover, standing on a very similar rimless unglazed base, from the Ataka Collection and now in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is illustrated in the catalogue of Masterpieces of Old Chinese Ceramics from Ataka Collection, Tokyo, 1975, no. 29. Another eight-lobed Yingqing ewer with simple dished cover in the collection of the Capital Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Song (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Song) Vol. 8, Shanghai, 1999, no. 149, p. 181 with caption on p. 286.
Compare also the small Yingqing ewer with six-lobed body and simple saucer-shaped cover, standing on a splayed ring foot, illustrated in Chaiyao Yu Hutianyao (Chai Kiln and Hutian Kiln), Nanning, 2004, p. 108, described as Hutian ware.
北宋 影青瓜稜執壺 高 15.3 厘米
