Northern song dynasty The black glaze blotches spit lu bottle

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John. Dr Hale (Dr Johannes Hellner, 1866-1947), Stockholm
at Christie’s in New York on March 20, 2001, no. 202
sotheby’s in New York on March 23, 2011, no. 517

exhibition Bo Gyllensvard, the Chinese and Scandinavian Ceramics: A Selection from the Hellner Collection/China northern Europe, far eastern antiquities museum, Stockholm, in 1970, no. 39

related information of this bottle of black glaze thick warm, brown spots sprinkled on, Juan xiuhe elegant and comfortable. Sprinkle the glaze technique highly experimental, reflect in the northern song dynasty kiln to meet the demand of domestic sales and exports tea and mutual competition, innovation of unprecedented pomp. Black glaze with rust colored glaze, the contrast look attractive, rusty spot in the mouth along, strewn at random in shoulder, all show spit bottle neck beam qiao lu, wide shoulder short abdomen characteristic. This bottle style is unique and free from vulgarity, rusty spot every time are unique, sprinkle glaze technique so deeply like by the song dynasty literati.
similar artifacts does not see more, there is a bottle of neck is a bit short, cataloguing Yu Kangrui jun, the meiyintang Tibetan Chinese ceramics, volume 3 (ii), 2006, 1510 chart. , another bottle of smaller, more description to complete works “world ceramics, 1977, volume 12, pp. 244, chart, 246.
John. Dr Hale (Dr Johannes Hellner, 1866-1947) for Sweden jurist and politician, officer to the foreign secretary. After leaving the strong interest to development of Chinese art, collection of Chinese porcelain began in 1925, founded in 1928 with a friend Kinaklubben, should in the early 1930 s became the east branch ceramic society Sweden. Hale, the collection is given priority to with tang and song dynasty treasures, but also of single glaze in the Ming and qing dynasties.