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Excellent Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai Funerary Urn browse these categories for related items... All Items: Chinese: Antiquities: Early Ceramics: Pre 1492: item #756595 Please refer to our stock #SLCP9 when inquiring.
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DESCRIPTION: A large and rarely encountered Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai Funerary Urn (1127 - 1279 AD), probably more specifically dated to 1200 - 1220 AD, based upon nearly identical dated and published examples. The lower bell of this extraordinary lidded urn is smooth and glazed, while the upper section is deeply ribbed and glazed, featuring hand formed and applied figures of people and animals, including a coiled dragon, a tortoise, a cockerel, a bird and a dog, along with pie crust decoration and ruyi head motifs.
These funerary urns were traditionally placed within the tomb in pairs, along East-West meridians. A fantastic example, these pieces are hard to find and rarely come on the market. For a nearly identical piece dated to 1209 AD, see Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasty, published by the Cheung Leng Foundation, 1998, p. 70 (photo included). CONDITION: Overall fine condition with no repair or restoration, several areas of small losses including a chip to the wing on the bird finial, some random dry spots and scuffing to the glaze, some areas with small firing cracks and chips to figures. DIMENSIONS: 23 ½” inches tall (59.6 cm). |
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