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200000 SEK

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150 000-175 000 SEK

Beskrivning

A Rare 'Ding' Melon-Shaped Ewer, the ovoid melon-shaped body divided into six shallow lobes and supported on a short splayed foot, applied with a handle intricately incised with a wickerwork pattern divided into two strands, arching above the open mouth and extending to three strands terminating in moulded floral tabs above the short curved spout, covered all over in a translucent ivory-white glaze, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), height c. 15 cm, wear, firing defects, minor nicks at the back of two floral tabs
PROVENANCE:
From a Swedish private collection, purchased at Sotheby's, Muwen Tang collection, London, 12 November 2003, lot 16
EXHIBITED:
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1994, cat.no. 14.
LITERATURE:
Compare with similar ewers, in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 7, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 74, another is included in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, fig.81, from the Le Blond collection, a third, from the Kempe collection, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, fig. 97, and a fourth is included in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, col. pl. 136.

Auktionsnummer:

3038

Datum:

2016-06-09