20 août 2016
A 'Xing' bowl, Tang dynasty-Five Dynasties, 9th-10th century
Lot 123. A 'Xing' bowl, Tang dynasty-Five Dynasties, 9th-10th century. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's
sturdily potted, raised on a short Samarra-type foot to a lipped rim, covered overall with a blue-tinged glaze, stopping unevenly above the foot to expose the pale stoneware body. Diameter 8 3/8 in., 21.3 cm
Notes: Compare a closely related Tang dynasty bowl of comparable size, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, cat. no. 247. Another attributed to the Five dynasties bowl is illustrated in Gakuji Hasebe, Sekai toji zenshu / Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1976, cat. no. 162, together with a Tang dynasty example potted with an everted rim, pl. 159.
Further bowls of this type sold at auction include one in our New York rooms 20th-21st November 1973, lot 242; another in our London rooms, 12th December 1978, lot 115; and a third from the E.T. Chow collection sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 244, also illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 9, fig. 53.
Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 13 sept. 2016, 10:30 AM
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