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Fine Asian Art, including the Walter Hochstadter Collection — Mossgreen Auctions

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Auction House: Mossgreen Auctions Number of lots recorded: 618
Sale Title: Fine Asian Art, including the Walter Hochstadter Collection Lots with images: 618
Auction Location: Melbourne Prices available: 359
Date: 14/06/2011









Lot Description Price Image
*** A Cizhou lotus bud form ewer, Song Dynasty (960-1279), the grey body with carved vertical ribs, covered with a good russet to dark brown glaze. 13 cm high ***
*** A tall Cizhou Meiping vase, Jin Dynasty, 12-13th century, the ribbed body covered in a good russet glaze. Reference See 'Song Ceramics', Southeast Asia ceramic Society, Singapore 1983. Cat & plate no 168, p 153, for a very similar example ***
*** A black pottery two-handled vessel, later Dawenkou culture, 3rd century Bce, thinly potted, with burnished surface. 7 cm diameter, 7.8 cm high ***
*** A red pottery Neolithic bowl, Banpo-type, Yangshou culture, 5th Millennium Bce, with burnished surface 10 cm diameter. Reference: See 'Transitory and Timeless: ancient Chinese pottery', the Chinese porcelain Co, 2002, cat no 1; Also; Sothebys Ny, 30/3/2007, lot 578 for similar examples ***
*** A tall brown-glazed ewer, five Dynasty/Song Dynasty, 10th century, 25.5 cm high, with bamboo-shoot spout, and lightly ribbed body. Reference: See R. Mowry, 'Hare's fur, tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers' cat no 28, p 128 & 129 for a very similar ewer ***
*** An impressive stoneware amphora vase, Sui/early Tang Dynasty, 6/7th century, with winged-dragon handles, the greenish-grey glaze stopping unevenly over the grey body, flat base. Reference: See 'Tang pottery and porcelain', Nezu Institute, Tokyo 1988, p 79 & 80, fig 2-6 ***
*** A Cizhou lobed bowl, Northern Song Dynasty, 960-1127, 12.6 cm diameter at mouth, 9 cm high. Covered with a thick, creamy glaze. ***
*** An ochre-glazed ewer, Tang Dynasty, 618-906, 16.5 cm high, with short spout, and a lead glaze ***
*** A stoneware ceramic mould, Song Dynasty, 960-1279, 17 cm long ***
*** A Neolithic red pottery-handled jar, Qijia culture, 1000-1500 Bce, 8 cm diameter, 11.9 cm high. Reference: See 'Transitory and Timeless: ancient Chinese pottery', the Chinese porcelain Co, 2002, cat no 59 ***
*** A grey pottery food vessel and cover (Dou), Western Han or earlier, 5th/3rd century Bce, following a bronze prototype, with burnished ribbed body. Reference: See Margaret Medley, 'the Chinese Potter', Ny 1976, Fig 17, p 32 for a similar example. ***
*** A rare Cizhou white-glazed ewer, Northern Song, 960-1127, 16.8 cm high. Covered with a good ivory white glaze. Reference: See 'Liao pottery and porcelain', 2002, p 105-106, cat no A1-A3 for similar examples . ***
*** A red pottery Neolithic bowl, Banpo-type, Yangshou culture, 5th Millennium Bce, 10 cm diameter, 7.6 cm high. Reference: See 'Transitory and Timeless: ancient Chinese pottery', the Chinese porcelain Co, 2002, cat no 1; Also; Sothebys Ny, 30/3/2007, lot 578 for similar examples. ***
*** Two ceramic covers, one Yueyao, the other Lonquan-type celadon. 14 cm and 14.8 cm respectively ***
*** A Teadust glazed tapering bottle, 23 cm high, with a buff body and recessed base ***
*** Two very large red pottery Neolithic bowls, Banpo-type, Yangshou culture, 5th Millennium Bce, 28.5 cm diameter, 29.2 cm diameter, each with burnished surface. Reference: See 'Transitory and Timeless: ancient Chinese pottery', the Chinese porcelain Co, Ny 2002, cat no 1. ***
*** An ash-glazed squat bowl, early Western Zhou, 10/9th century Bce, 9.7 cm diameter (rim), with two decorative lugs, and incised decoration. Reference: See 'the ceramic Art of China', Ocs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1971, cat no 10, pl 6, for a very similar example ***
*** A rare small stoneware ewer, Tang Dynasty, 618-906, 9.5 cm high, with a good even dark tea-dust glaze, supported on a flat buff-coloured foot. Reference: See 'Tang pottery and porcelain', Nezu Institute, 1988, cat no 29, p36 for a similar ewer ***
*** A Proto-celadon glazed bottle vase, Sui Dynasty, 581-618, 26.5 cm high, the finely crazed olive green glaze stopping well above the flat brick red base ***
*** An archaic earthenware steep-sided beaker, Neolithic/Shang Dynasty, 2nd millennium Bce, 13 cm diameter, 14.5 cm high, the body with two knops, and covered in a cross-hatch design. ***

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