China, 907-1125. The elongated ovoid body rising to a tall flared rim, covered with a lustrous amber glaze pooling in the recesses and stopping in an irregular line above the unglazed base and foot.

Provenance: From the collection of Joseph Rondina (1927-2022), who was born into a first-generation Florentine-American family in Auburn, upstate 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: Good condition with minor wear, firing flaws, glaze lines, minor kiln grit, minimal fritting, and small chips to the body and foot.

Weight: 1,259 g
Dimensions: Height 35.7 cm

Literature comparison:
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 result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby's New York, 17 March 2015, lot 13
Estimate: USD 5,000 or approx. EUR 6,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: An amber-glazed pottery vase, Liao dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form and amber glaze. Note the related size (35 cm).