A carved Qingbai 'daylily' vase, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)
Lot 636. A carved Qingbai 'daylily' vase, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.
the ovoid body supported on a flared foot, surmounted by a cylindrical neck opening into a wide, six-lobed flower-shaped rim with down-turned petal tips, the body freely incised with floral blooms on leafing stems, the petals defined with combed details, the shoulder and neck encircled by double-fillets, the interior of the neck applied with radiating lines of slip, covered overall in a vitreous pale blue glaze pooling at the recesses, the base unglazed revealing the buff-colored body. Height 7 in., 17.8 cm
Provenance: China House of Arts, New York, 1980-90s.
Note: A pair of the same form and decoration from the Capelo Collection was sold in our London rooms 5th November 2014, lot 71. Compare also an example with a taller foliated neck, in the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated in Stacey Pierson (ed.), Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002, pl. 71 and a more ornate example in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 1, pl. 57.
A pair of carved Qingbai 'floral' vases, Northern Song dynasty. Sold 37,500 GBP at Sotheby's London, 5th November 2014. Photo: Sotheby's.
(Cf. my post: https://alaintruong2014.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/a-pair-of-carved-qingbai-floral-vases-northern-song-dynasty/)