A Ding-type white-glazed pear-shaped vase


12th/13th centuryThe elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short splayed foot to a tall flaring neck with an everted rim, covered overall with a smooth creamy white glaze except the foot ring and base to reveal the white body, calligraphic collector's mark on the base, fitted box. 23cm (9 1/8in) high. (2).
|十二/十三世紀 定窯系白釉膽瓶Provenance: acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 18 June 2002, no.2071The Reid Collection來源：於2002年6月18日購自悉尼古董商R & V Tregaskis，編號2071Reid 收藏Compare a white-glazed long necked bottle vase, Jin dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S.Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p.36, no.25. See also another example in the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol.5, Tokyo, 1981, no.55. A similar white-glazed long-necked bottle vase, Jin dynasty, was sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 530.