A WHITE-GLAZED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY | 北宋至金 白釉玉壺春瓶
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October 9, 06:06 AM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 HKD
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A WHITE-GLAZED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY
北宋至金 白釉玉壺春瓶
elegantly potted with a pear-shaped body supported on a short splayed foot, gently tapering to a slender neck and a flared rim, covered overall in a rich ivory-white glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the crisp whitish-grey body
30.3 cm, 11 ¾ in.
Sotheby's London, 9th June 1987, lot 140.
A Japanese private collection.
倫敦蘇富比1987年6月19日，編號140
日本私人收藏
A smaller bottle vase from the Jin dynasty, formerly in the collection of George Eumorfopoulous and now preserved in the British Museum, London, no. 1936,1012.26, is illustrated in Shelagh J. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present, London, 1991, pp. 88-89, fig. 66. Compare also a Northern Song Ding example of similar size and form which probably inspired this type of vases, from the collections of Mr and Mrs Eugene Bernat and Manno Art Museum, sold in our New York rooms, 7th November 1980, lot 111, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 28th October 2002, lot 514.