Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D., China
Height: 30 cm
A large ovoid jar with domed lid surmounted by a lotus bud finial. The finely formed ovoid body has a short, flared mouth-rim and a slightly flared base with flat foot. The piece is covered in a translucent, finely crackled glaze down to its foot, which has fired to a mottled tan color.
Provenance:
Chinese Porcelain Company, New York
Private New York Collection
Christie’s, 2008
Northern Wei Dynasty, 386-581 AD, China
Height: 34cm
A pair of dark grey pottery attendant figures mounted on dark wooden stands. Each figure has a molded body with flat back and flowing robes with hands clasped at belly. The outer robes and hats are colored with cinnabar red (now partially flaked and touched up) and other areas with partial white paint. Old repairs to cracks in the bodies.
Provenance:
Sotheby’s London, 15th June 1964, lot 68.
Collection of Wou Kiuan (1910-1997).
Wou Lien-Pai Museum, from 1968-2022
Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D., China
Height: 10.75cm
A small earthenware ewer with bulbous body standing on a flared pedestal foot with rounded rim The body is surmounted by a flared neck and trefoil mouth-rim, in the fashion of Persian metal-work ewers. The handle runs from the top-back of the mouth down to the top of the shoulders, with beads applied to top and bottom. The neck, mouth, and handle are covered in a rich amber colored glaze, while the body is covered in a cobalt blue glaze spotted white by wax resist and streams of amber. The bottom section of the body and foot are unglazed, revealing a white pottery body.
Other similar examples are published in the Nezu Museum’s catalog “Tang Pottery and Porcelain”, 1988., pg. 85, fig. 8.
Provenance:
From a private Japanese Collection and in an old Japanese box.
Five Dynasties, 10th c. AD, China
Diameter: 16.5 cm
A white porcelain shallow bowl with four points and four petal shaped lobes each. Finely potted of thin porcelaineous stoneware, it is covered in a translucent glaze, and sits on a straight collar foot rim. There are two areas of staining on exterior and two minute rim chips.
Provenance:
Zetterquist Galleries, 2001
The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection
Changsha Ewer with Bird Painting
Late Tang Dynasty, 9th c. AD, China
Height: 20.2 cm
A Changsha ewer of high-shouldered form delineated by four lobes and surmounted by a wide, flaring mouth-rim. A grooved strap handle connects the body to the neck on one side, with short faceted spout atop the shoulder on the other. The exterior and interior is covered with a thin yellowish celadon glaze which ends short of the flat, stained bottom. The body is decorated with a depiction of a bird and flower-heads outlined in brown with green highlights. Repaired foot-rim chips.
Provenance: Nankai Tokyo, 2012
Small Changsha Ewer Bird-Form Ewer
Late Tang Dynasty, 9th c. AD, China
Length: 9.7 cm
A small Changsha bird-shaped ewer with compressed melon form body decorated with wings, tail and bird head in relief. The form sits on a short, straight foot and is surmounted by a stepped lid with bud finial. The pale, yellowish celadon glaze is highlighted with green and brown splashes. The foot is unglazed, revealing a grey stoneware body fired to a buff color. TL tested.
Provenance: Littleton and Hennessey, 2017
Changsha Bowl with Floral Decoration
Late Tang Dynasty, 9th c. AD, China
Diameter: 15.25 cm
A round, shallow stoneware bowl with ridged, everted rim and slightly flared, thickly potted foot. The dark stoneware body is covered in slip with, the exception of the underfoot, revealing a dark grey stoneware body.
Five Dynasties, 10th c. AD, China
Diameter: 17.2 cm
A northern white ware porcelaineous stoneware shallow bowl with its rim carved in a foliate design of five lobes divided into two petals each, and covered with a translucent glaze. (Some minute rim chips.) The outside has ivory colored glaze pooling and sits on a straight, neatly cut unglazed foot-rim.
From a private American collection.
A similar example from the Carl Kempe Collection is published in “Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection”, Stockholm, 1964. pg. 113, pl. 338.
Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D., China
Diameter: 24cm (9.35 inches)
A flat-bottomed plate with gently curved cavetto and broad, flat rim with raised edge. The inside is decorated with a Persian inspired floral medallion surrounded by six lotus depictions in profile and six closed buds between them. The decoration is incised, then colored with blue, green and amber glazes that adhere well to the pattern. The rest of the plate is white and covered with a translucent, finely crackled glaze, now slightly degraded in some areas, that continues on the back to the flattened bottom. The entire piece sits on three legs of stylized lion’s paw form.
Provenance:
Zetterquist Galleries, 2001
Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection
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