PROVENANCE: Private Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth. Christie's New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Volume VII, 18-27, March 2015. This lot is of superbly potted ovoid form, the rounded sides with sharply defined vertical ribs forming the narrow trails of white slip revealed through the rich lustrous brown glaze, surmounted by an upright neck with lipped rim, applied with two broad multi-ribbed tapering tab handles, the lustrous brown glaze applied in more than one layer, falling in an uneven line terminating in thick droplets around the base revealing a pale brown slip underneath, the interior of the foot ring similarly dressed, leaving the broad buff-colored knife-pared footring unglazed for firing
This lot is of superbly potted ovoid form, the rounded sides with sharply defined vertical ribs forming the narrow trails of white slip revealed through the rich lustrous brown glaze, surmounted by an upright neck with lipped rim, applied with two broad multi-ribbed tapering tab handles, the lustrous brown glaze applied in more than one layer, falling in an uneven line terminating in thick droplets around the base revealing a pale brown slip underneath, the interior of the foot ring similarly dressed, leaving the broad buff-colored knife-pared footring unglazed for firing
PROVENANCE: Private Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth. Christie's New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Volume VII, 18-27, March 2015.