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Lot 19

A SMALL XINGYAO WHITE-GLAZED LION-HANDLED EWER
Late Tang Dynasty

15 May 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A SMALL XINGYAO WHITE-GLAZED LION-HANDLED EWER

Late Tang Dynasty
Elegantly modelled with a slender ovoid body surmounted by a waisted cylindrical neck with lipped rim, applied with a short spout to one side of the shoulder and a lion-shaped handle to the other side of the rim leaping into the interior, all under a creamy-white glaze falling unevenly above the foot to reveal the buff stoneware body, box. 8cm (3 1/8in) high. (2).

Footnotes

晚唐 邢窯白釉獅把執壺

Provenance:
Tony Omura, Hong Kong, 1994
Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired from the above on 9 December 1996

Published, illustrated and Exhibited:
Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, TEFAF Basel, 1995 (exhibited)
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.80-81, no.34 (published and illustrated)

來源:
大村俊,香港,1994年
倫敦古董商Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020),雅典和倫敦,於1996年12月9日從上處獲得

展覽著錄:
Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, TEFAF Basel,1995年(展覽)
D.Priestley和M.Flacks,《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》,倫敦,2017年,第80-81頁,編號34(著錄插圖)

Compare with a similar Xingyao lion-handled ewer, Tang dynasty, illustrated by B.Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, p.100, no.289. Another related white-glazed ewer, 9th century, late Tang dynasty, formerly in the Eumorfopoulos collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, of similar form modelled with a similar lion handle, is illustrated by S.Pierson, Chinese Ceramics, London, 2009, p.19, no.18.

See a similar lion-handled Xingyao ewer, 10th century, which was sold at Sotheby's London, 9 November 2018, lot 249.

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