A TALL AMBER-GLAZED VASE, LIAO DYNASTYScientific Analysis Report: A thermoluminescence report issued by Daybreak Nuclear and Medical Systems, Inc., Guilford, Connecticut, USA, dated 12 September 1990, based on sample number 363A227, sets the firing date of one sample taken between 760 and 1020 years ago. A copy of the report apanies this lot.China, 907-1125. The elongated ovoid body rising to a tall flared rim, decorated with incised lines around the shoulder as well as the base and mid-section of the waisted neck, covered with a lustrous amber glaze pooling in the recesses and falling to an irregular line above the unglazed base and foot.Provenance: The base with an old label, ‘Liao Dynasty 907-1125 AD’. From the collection of Joseph Rondina (1927-2022), who was born into a first-generation Florentine-American family in Auburn, tate New York. Returning to the U.S. after being stationed in Berlin at the end of the Second World War, he studied at the Whitman School of Design before opening Joseph Rondina Antiques on Madison Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1957. In the beginning, his interests focused primarily on European 18th-century decorative arts and furniture, over time developing to include Chinese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Cambodian, Persian and Japanese art, bringing a more esoteric and exotic style to the market. His clientele included stars of the stage and screen, royalty, notables, dignitaries, and denizens of the social register from the United States and abroad.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and firing irregularities, including three spur marks to the rim, the base with minor chips, the interior of the foot drilled with a hole from sample-taking. The vase is slightly leaning.Weight: 1,126 gDimensions: Height 36.4 cmLiteratureparison:The attenuated tall form is a classic Liao shape. This type is generally monochromatic with either an amber or a green glaze. Similar examples are known from Liao burial sites in Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia illustrated in Liaoci Xuanji, A Collection of Liao Tomb Relics of the Liao Dynasty, Beijing, 1961, pl. 345, and another is illustrated in Li Zhi Yan, The Art of Glazed Pottery of China, Hong Kong, 1989, no 239. Green-glazed examples of this form are found in two museum collections, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, object number B60P1103, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, p. 146, no. 208 and in The Boston Museum of Fine Arts accession number 50.891, illustrated in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. II, Boston, 1972, no. 4.Auction resultparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 2015, lot 13Estimate: USD 5,000 or approx.EUR 5,700 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: An amber-glazed pottery vase, Liao dynastyExpert remark:pare the closely relate