A grey pottery handled jar, Neolithic period, Siwa culture | 新石器時代 寺窪文化 灰陶馬鞍口雙耳罐
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September 9, 11:30 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
the small circular flat base rising to a rounded belly and surmounted by a waisted neck and saddle-shaped mouth connected to the shoulder with two loop handles, the red clay tinted with dark grey with small areas revealing the pink shades, Japanese wood box
w. 24 cm
Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.
Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, cat. no. 4.
Chugoku Toji. Ise Korekushon / Chinese Ceramics. The Ise Collection, Tokyo, 2012, p. 80.
Siwa culture flourished in Southeast Gansu during the Bronze Age. Pottery jars featuring saddle-shaped mouths belong to a classic pottery type of this civilisation. A jar of this form has been excavated from Disiping, Lianlu, Kangle county in Gansu; see Zhongguo taoci quanji [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics], vol. 2: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods, Shanghai, 2000, no. 90.
See a related Siwa double-handled jar with saddle-shaped mouths in red from the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 3, no. 1081. Compare also two jars, one slightly taller and one closely related, in the Harvard Art Museums, accession nos 2006.170.69 and 2006.170.70. See another Siwa jar, previously in the collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf, sold in these rooms, 31st May 2023, lot 819.
來源
繭山龍泉堂，東京
展覽
《中国陶磁名品展―イセコレクションの至宝》，石川縣立美術館，石川，2012年，編號4
出版
《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》，東京，2012年，頁80
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