宋 青白釉瓜棱帶蓋執壺

well-potted with an eight-lobed body rising to a tall cylindrical neck flaring at the rim, set on one side with a slender, curving spout opposite a strap handle with a small ring at the top corresponding to a ring on the circular concave fitted cover with a floral bud knop, decorated with a low horizontal ridge at the base of the neck, and an incised band just below the rim, with a lightly incised series of lines around the mid-section of the body and a leaf-form freely carved at the base of the spout, covered overall with a transparent pale blue glaze pooling to a darker tone within the recesses, the base and footrim unglazed, Japanese wood box (6)

購於東京，1985年

In very good general condition. Original firing cracks where the handle joins the body, and encircling the base of the spout. Fritting to glaze along the rim, edges of handle and tip of spout. A shall chip to one of the spur marks to the base. The inner rim of the cover with three minute chips.
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Inspired by Near and Middle Eastern glass and metal prototypes, this ewer is a fine example of one of the best and most classic of Qingbai wares. A related ewer was excavated from a Song tomb at Yanshan near Shaowu in Fujian province, and is illustrated in Kaogu, 1981:5, pl. 11, fig. 8. Published examples of this form include one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 417; another in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, cat. no. 118; and one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pl. 97.