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39 - A White-glazed Spittoon, Sui/Tang dynastythe well potted vessel of compressed globular form, rising from a short straight foot to a waisted neck with a pronounced raised collar and widely everted, rolled rim, covered with a translucent ivory-white glaze stopping irregularly above the lower body to reveal the pale buff-white body; A similar object of this distinctive form, excavated from a Sui tomb at Houchuan, Henan province and now in the Chinese History Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Sui Tang, Vol. 5(The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Sui and Tang Dynasties), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 13, p. 46, with caption on p. 219. Two other similar spittoon excavated from a Sui tomb at Ermencun in the western suburbs of Xi'an dated to A.D. 610, also now in the Chinese History Museum, are illustrated by Koyama, Chugoku Toji (Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1970, fig. 21. Another vase of this form, excavated from the tomb of Li Jingxun, dated by epitaph to A.D. 608 and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, is illustrated by Mayuyama in Chugoku bunbutsu kenbun, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 87 H:11.5cm [Good, two small chips restored at rim] Link of detail photos: https://we.tl/t-ixo3amzjzf3RjN99
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A White-glazed Spittoon, Sui/Tang dynastythe well potted vessel of compressed globular form, rising from a short straight foot to a waisted neck with a pronounced raised collar and widely everted, rolled rim, covered with a translucent ivory-white glaze stopping irregularly above the lower body to reveal the pale buff-white body; A similar object of this distinctive form, excavated from a Sui tomb at Houchuan, Henan province and now in the Chinese History Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Sui Tang, Vol. 5(The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Sui and Tang Dynasties), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 13, p. 46, with caption on p. 219. Two other similar spittoon excavated from a Sui tomb at Ermencun in the western suburbs of Xi'an dated to A.D. 610, also now in the Chinese History Museum, are illustrated by Koyama, Chugoku Toji (Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1970, fig. 21. Another vase of this form, excavated from the tomb of Li Jingxun, dated by epitaph to A.D. 608 and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, is illustrated by Mayuyama in Chugoku bunbutsu kenbun, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 87 H:11.5cm [Good, two small chips restored at rim] Link of detail photos: https://we.tl/t-ixo3amzjzf3RjN99
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