A WHITE-GLAZED KUNDIKA, TANG DYNASTYChina, 618-907. The globular body supported on a spreading foot, rising to a tall waisted neck surmounted by a tapering tubular mouth, set with a bulbous spout to the shoulder, covered overall in a milky grayish-white glaze stopping above the foot revealing the gray body.Provenance: From the collection of the late Professor Peter Charles Greiner, a mathematician at the University of Toronto and notable collector of Chinese ceramics. Thence by descent in the family.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and firing flaws, minor chips to the lower rim of the spout.Weight: 617.9 g Dimensions: Diameter 24 cmEwers of this type, known as kundika after the Sanskrit term for a 'pure-water bottle', were used in Buddhist ceremonies during the Tang dynasty and derived their shapes from metal prototypes; see a bronze example illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. 328.Literature comparison: A slightly larger white-glazed kundika of similar form, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Ceramics, vol. 4, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Beijing, 2013, pl. 183, together with a much smaller example, pl. 184; one in the Niigata Art Museum, Niigata, is published in Sekai toji zenshu/ Ceramic Art of the World, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 11, pl. 110; and a third example is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Yuegutang: Eine Berliner Sammlung Chinesischer Keramik, Berlin, 2000, pl. 85.Auction result comparison: A closely related kundika was sold by Sotheby's London in Important Chinese Art on 11 May 2016, lot 215, for GBP 65,000.唐代白釉净水瓶 中國,618-907年。高圈足,足沿起台外撇,管狀細長頸,盅口,頸中上部出塔式沿。肩部一側出上翹的彎流,流口亦為盅形。長圓腹,圓潤規整,白色粉質陶胎,器身施釉至脛部。釉面薄而勻淨,白釉光滋潤。此瓶稱為“軍持”,俗名淨水瓶,是佛教器物。 來源:已故Peter Charles Greiner教授藏品,多倫多大學數學家,著名的中國陶瓷收藏家。 從此在同一家族世代相傳。品相:狀況極佳,有輕微磨損和燒制缺陷,瓶嘴下緣有小磕損。 重量:617.9 克 尺寸:直徑24厘米 拍賣結果比較:一件相近净水瓶售于倫敦蘇富比Important Chinese Art 拍場,2016年5月11 日,售價 GBP 65,000。