5th Mar, 2021 10:00

TWO-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism

 
  Lot 174
 

174

A SLIP-COVERED LOBED EWER, LIAO TO SONG DYNASTY
遼至宋代執壺

Sold for €885

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Lot details

China, 907-1279. The body finely molded with six lobes, supported on a short splayed foot and rising to a slightly flared neck, the shoulder applied with a C-shaped handle and gently curved upright spout, covered in a layer of white slip below the transparent glaze, stopping short above the foot, revealing the gray-beige body.

Provenance: Gallery Lam & Co., Hong Kong, 16 January 1999. Dr. Koos de Jong, acquired from the above. A copy of the original invoice accompanies this lot. Dr. de Jong is a Dutch art historian and has been privately collecting Chinese art over decades. He has authored hundreds of articles and several books on Dutch fine and decorative arts spanning from the Middle Ages to the modern era. In 2013, he published an extensive study of Chinese riding gear in “Dragon & Horse, Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond”. Between 1976 and 2009 he worked for numerous museums across the Netherlands and was the director of the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and firing flaws, intentional crackling.

Weight: 781.8 g
Dimensions: Height 19.3 cm

Literature comparison: Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. (ed. Yutaka Mino), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis 1981, p. 34, ill. 5. He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London 1996, p. 149, ill. 226. R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. I, London 1994, no. 478, p. 261.

Auction result comparison: Compare with a related, but later and significantly more elaborate Qingbai ewer, for which the form of the present lot served as an inspiration, at Christie’s Hong Kong, in Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, on 9 July 2020, lot 2804, sold for HKD 2,125,000.

遼至宋代執壺
中國,907-1279年。壺體呈六瓣,短圈足,頸部微縮,往上到壺口略外翻,肩部執柄彎曲,立噴嘴,在透明釉下覆蓋一層白化妝土,直至足上方,露出灰色胎。

來源:香港Gallery Lam & Co., 1999年1月 16日;Dr. Koos de Jong收藏,購於上述收藏(附原始發票)。Dr. de Jong是一位荷蘭藝術史學家, 幾十年來他一直私人收藏中國藝術品。他撰寫了數百篇文章和幾本書,內容涉及從中世紀到現代的荷蘭美術和裝飾藝術。 2013年,他在《Dragon & Horse:Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond》中發表了有關中國騎馬裝備的詳盡研究。1976年至2009年間,他曾在荷蘭的許多博物館工作,並曾擔任登博世歐洲陶瓷工作中心的主任。
圖片: Dr. Koos de Jong 與Ingeborg de Roode (照片來自於Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)
品相:狀況極佳,有輕微磨損和燒制缺陷。

重量:781.8 g
尺寸:高19.3 厘米

拍賣結果比較:一件相近但更晚的青白罐,見香港佳士得Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art拍場,2020年7月9日lot 2804, 售價HKD 2,125,000.

 

China, 907-1279. The body finely molded with six lobes, supported on a short splayed foot and rising to a slightly flared neck, the shoulder applied with a C-shaped handle and gently curved upright spout, covered in a layer of white slip below the transparent glaze, stopping short above the foot, revealing the gray-beige body.

Provenance: Gallery Lam & Co., Hong Kong, 16 January 1999. Dr. Koos de Jong, acquired from the above. A copy of the original invoice accompanies this lot. Dr. de Jong is a Dutch art historian and has been privately collecting Chinese art over decades. He has authored hundreds of articles and several books on Dutch fine and decorative arts spanning from the Middle Ages to the modern era. In 2013, he published an extensive study of Chinese riding gear in “Dragon & Horse, Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond”. Between 1976 and 2009 he worked for numerous museums across the Netherlands and was the director of the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and firing flaws, intentional crackling.

Weight: 781.8 g
Dimensions: Height 19.3 cm

Literature comparison: Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. (ed. Yutaka Mino), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis 1981, p. 34, ill. 5. He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London 1996, p. 149, ill. 226. R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. I, London 1994, no. 478, p. 261.

Auction result comparison: Compare with a related, but later and significantly more elaborate Qingbai ewer, for which the form of the present lot served as an inspiration, at Christie’s Hong Kong, in Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, on 9 July 2020, lot 2804, sold for HKD 2,125,000.

遼至宋代執壺
中國,907-1279年。壺體呈六瓣,短圈足,頸部微縮,往上到壺口略外翻,肩部執柄彎曲,立噴嘴,在透明釉下覆蓋一層白化妝土,直至足上方,露出灰色胎。

來源:香港Gallery Lam & Co., 1999年1月 16日;Dr. Koos de Jong收藏,購於上述收藏(附原始發票)。Dr. de Jong是一位荷蘭藝術史學家, 幾十年來他一直私人收藏中國藝術品。他撰寫了數百篇文章和幾本書,內容涉及從中世紀到現代的荷蘭美術和裝飾藝術。 2013年,他在《Dragon & Horse:Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and Beyond》中發表了有關中國騎馬裝備的詳盡研究。1976年至2009年間,他曾在荷蘭的許多博物館工作,並曾擔任登博世歐洲陶瓷工作中心的主任。
圖片: Dr. Koos de Jong 與Ingeborg de Roode (照片來自於Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)
品相:狀況極佳,有輕微磨損和燒制缺陷。

重量:781.8 g
尺寸:高19.3 厘米

拍賣結果比較:一件相近但更晚的青白罐,見香港佳士得Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art拍場,2020年7月9日lot 2804, 售價HKD 2,125,000.

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