A SMALL 'XING' WHITE-GLAZED EWER FIVE DYNASTIES / NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY

of spherical form rising from a shallow straight foot, one side with short spout set opposite an arching strap handle cut with double grooves, covered inside and out with a clear glaze pooling to creamy-yellowish tone, stopping unevenly above the foot to reveal the white porcelaneous body.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

Two small chips to the foot, measuring approximately 0.6 and 0.4 cm. A 0.2 cm rim flake and minute frits to the rim. A 0.2 cm potting flaw to the shoulder, and a faint 1 cm horizontal crack or glaze line to the underside of the top of the handle. Inscribed number LL26 to base.
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Compare two similar spherical ewers attributed to the 'Xing' kilns in Hebei province, one illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. III (2), London, 2006, pl. 1421; and the another formerly in the Kempe collection, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 292.