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Property from the Collection of Mark S. Pratt
Lot 7223
A small Yue ware jar with lotus petal decoration Five Dynasties/early Northern Song dynasty
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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A small Yue ware jar with lotus petal decoration
Five Dynasties/early Northern Song dynasty
Of compressed oval form with a flat inverted rim and a band of lotus petals carved in delicate relief along the exterior walls that taper inward above an short foot ring, the thin layer of pale olive-green glaze exhibiting a dense web of minute craze lines and covering all surfaces except the remains of seven kiln spurs on the foot pad.
4 5/8in (11.5cm) diameter
Of compressed oval form with a flat inverted rim and a band of lotus petals carved in delicate relief along the exterior walls that taper inward above an short foot ring, the thin layer of pale olive-green glaze exhibiting a dense web of minute craze lines and covering all surfaces except the remains of seven kiln spurs on the foot pad.
4 5/8in (11.5cm) diameter
Footnotes
A Yue ware jar of similar shape and decoration from the highlands of Jambi Sumatra, one of many found in Indonesia is published in ORIENTAL CERAMICS The World's Great Collections, Vol. 3: Museum Pusat, Jakarta, 1982, color pl. 73, and discussed p. 170 (12.6cm diameter, as Five Dynasties or Song dynasty). For another globular jar with similar lotus petal decoration, also as Yue ware from the Five dynasties or Early Song period, 10th century, see ORIENTAL CERAMICS The World's Great Collections, Vol. 10: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1980, fig. 103 (10.4cm diameter); and a Yue ware shard of a base with similar foot and remains of spur marks, incised with the date Taiping wu-yin (978) from the same collection, fig. 106.