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Lot 38
A SET OF FOUR GRAY POTTERY WARES
Yuan dynasty
20 March 2023, 08:30 EDT
New YorkSold for US$7,012.50 inc. premium
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A SET OF FOUR GRAY POTTERY WARES
Yuan dynasty
A pair of small cups with dragon handles, a quad-lobed oval dish, and a shallow bowl with trefoil flange handle, each with burnished black 'charcoal' surface.
4in (10.1cm) width of dragon cups;
7 7/8in (20cm) length of lobed oval tray;
6in (16.5cm) width of bowl with flange (4).
A pair of small cups with dragon handles, a quad-lobed oval dish, and a shallow bowl with trefoil flange handle, each with burnished black 'charcoal' surface.
4in (10.1cm) width of dragon cups;
7 7/8in (20cm) length of lobed oval tray;
6in (16.5cm) width of bowl with flange (4).
Footnotes
元 加碳灰陶龍柄魁一對與海棠式托盤、鋬耳杯各一
Compare the pair of gray pottery dragon-head handled cups of hexagonal shape on an oval lobbed gray pottery dish unearthed from a Yuan dynasty tomb near Datong city, Shanxi province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1987, no. 6, p. 88.
A quad-lobed oval tray of this form but made of celadon jade, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated on the museum's website and described as Liao to Song dynasty. Compare also the Junyao dish of very similar quad-lobed oval form in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the exhibition catalog Pinpai gushi: Qianlong huangdi de wenwu shoucang yu baozhuang yishu (Story of a Brand Name: The Collection and Packaging Aesthetics of Emperor Qianlong in the Eighteenth Century), Taipei, 2017, p. 61, described as Jin-Yuan dynasty.
A gold shallow bowl with flange handle of closely related form discovered in Inner Mongolia is illustrated by Watt, The World of Khublilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, New York, 2010, p. 6, fig. 4.
A set of grey pottery cups, zhadou spittoon, and a circular tray with burnished 'charcoal' coating, unearthed from the Lü family cemetery in Lantian, Shaanxi province, is illustrated in Temporal Living and Elegant Life in Song Dynasty, Beijing, 2022, pp. 194-195, described as Northern Song dynasty.