J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
MenuPast Exhibition
The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
37.
AN IRON-DECORATED WHITE PORCELAIN BOX AND COVER
Five Dynasties/Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 10th-11th Century
of domed circular form with slightly tapered and deeply grooved sides, applied on the cover with three large orchid-like blooms textured with roulette-stippled lines on the spreading petals and borne on looping stems extending around and across a raised double-ring in the center, highlighted with iron-brown spots on the ring, flowers and stems, covered overall with a clear glaze pooling to a pale bluish-green tone in the recesses and continuing down to the edge of the thick ring foot, the roughly-pared footrim and recessed base, rim of the box and interior of the cover all left unglazed revealing the fine white porcelain body.
Diameter 5 inches (12.6 cm)
A very similar box and cover is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, no. 1399, p. 397, attributed to Guangdong province.
Compare the iron-brown-spotted porcelain boxes of similar form decorated with bamboo motifs, excavated in 1985 from a tomb dated to A.D. 1053 in De’an county, Jiangxi province, illustrated by Peng, ed., Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 12, p. 44, with caption on page 90.
Compare also the covered box of closely related form, with carved foliate decoration on top, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), Vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, fig. 179, p. 295.
五代 / 北宋 影青貼花褐斑蓋盒 徑 12.6 厘米
