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
35.
A YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN FLOWER-SHAPED BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
with deep sides divided into ten rounded lobes rising to a slightly flaring scalloped rim, raised on a wide ring foot with straight sides of wedge-shaped cross-section, covered inside and out with glossy translucent glaze of very pale bluish-green tone continuing over the footrim and showing an attractive pattern of lightly stained crackle throughout, the flat recessed base left unglazed showing the white porcelain body burnt to pinkish-brown in the firing.
Diameter 5 1⁄2 inches (14 cm
From the Collection of Margot Holmes, MHC No. 2069
From the Collection of J. Hellner (1866-1947), Stockholm
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy of Art, International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936
Venice, Mostra d’Arte Cinese: Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo (Exhibition of Chinese Art: The Seventh Centenary of Marco Polo), 1954
Stockholm, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Kina och Norden i form och glasyr ur Hellnerska samlingen (Chinese and Scandinavian Ceramics: A Selection from the Hellner Collection), 1970
Published:
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-1936, no. 2582
Mostra d’Arte Cinese: Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo (Exhibition of Chinese Art: The Seventh Centenary of Marco Polo), Venice, 1954, no. 586
Kina och Norden i form och glasyr ur Hellnerska samlingen (Chinese and Scandinavian Ceramics: A Selection from the Hellner Collection), Stockholm, 1970, no. 50, p. 73, with description on p. 28
Gyllensvard, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 89
A Song dynasty flower-shaped dark brown lacquer bowl of closely related form, excavated in 1984 in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, and now in the Changzhou City Museum, is illustrated in Changzhou Wenwu Jinghua (Select Changzhou Cultural Relics), Beijing, 1998, no. 74.
北宋 影青蓮花式碗 徑 14 厘米
35.
A YINGQING GLAZED PORCELAIN FLOWER-SHAPED BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
Diameter 5 1⁄2 inches (14 cm