A RARE AND LARGE DINGYAO BOTTLE VASE

细节

A RARE AND LARGE DINGYAO BOTTLE VASE
10TH CENTURY

The elegant baluster body tapering to the base, the tall waisted neck surmounted by a dished mouth with a vertical rim, covered overall in a characteristic creamy-white glaze, the recessed base resting on a neatly cut foot (body crack restored)--15 3/8in. (39cm.) high

拍品专文

Compare with five dingyao bottle vases of this shape and approximate size inscribed with a guan character to the base, one in Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 12, col. pl. 1, and in Toki Zenshu, vol. 14, Liao Ceramics, pl. 46; another from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 2, where a third is mentioned in the Liaoning Museum, Liaoning Province; a fourth example, excavated from a royal Liao Tomb in 1956, is illustrated in A Selection of Liao Ceramics, Wenwu Publication, no. 46; the fifth was sold in these Rooms, 29 September 1992, lot 451