Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 march 2013
A 'Qingbai' lobed ewer and cover, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 29. A 'Qingbai' lobed ewer and cover, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Height 9 7/8 in., 25 cm. Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 USD. Lot sold 10,625 USD. © Sotheby's
the body divided into eight lobes encircled by double bands, the tall waisted neck rising to a slightly everted rim, set with a tall curved spout opposite an arched strap handle applied on top with a small loop for attachment to a similar loop on the concave cover, with an applied bud-form finial, all beneath a finely crackled translucent glaze of very pale blue, Japanese wood box (14).
Provenance: Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, acquired between 1960-1969.
Exhibited: Chugoku kotoji to-so meito ten, Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, 1964, cat. no. 142.
Literatre: Chugoku Touji Meihou Ten Series, The Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 1966, no. 142.
Note: Two similar examples (one without cover) are found in the collection of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts. See Sung Ceramics, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 1979, nos. 43, 44; another one in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics (Osaka), see the exhibition catalogue Song Ceramics, Tobu Museum (Tokyo), the Museum of Oriental Ceramics (Osaka) and the Hagi Uragami Museum (Hagi), 1999, p. 80, no. 43.