五代 十世紀 邢窰系白釉執壺

well potted, the ovoid body rising from a short spreading foot to a narrow trumpet neck and flared rim, set to one side with a tied triple-stranded strap handle and to the other with a short tapered spout, covered overall with a translucent glaze of creamy white pooling to a pale bluish tone, stopping unevenly above the unglazed foot to reveal the white body

In overall good condition, with light surface wear and scattered firing flaws including minor glaze gaps throughout. The mouth rim and foot ring with light abrasions. The foot with a 1 cm wide sample taken for testing, the foot ring with two 1/2 cm wide flake chips, and with a 1 cm wide flake loss from the original firing. Minor flake and hairline crack to the interior of the spout's lip.
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White-glazed ewers of this type have variously been attributed to the Xing and Ding kilns of Hebei province during the late Tang and Five dynasties. Compare a similar ewer of the same size attributed to the Xing kilns, formerly in the Kempe Collection, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 286 and sold in our London rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 205.

Other ewers of closely related form and glaze include one in the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated in Yutaka Mino, Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stonewares of the Royal Ontatio Museum, Toronto, 1974, pl. 66; another included in the exhibition Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou. White Ding wares from the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, cat. no. I-8; and a third published in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1988, pl. 315.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of a thermoluminescence test, C-Link Research & Development Limited, Hong Kong, sample no. 6624CA02.