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Lot 11

An amber-glazed amphora
Tang Dynasty

16 May 2019, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An amber-glazed amphora

Tang Dynasty
The baluster body rising to a rounded shoulder surmounted by a tall waisted neck and everted lipped rim, flanked by a pair of curved strap handles terminating in dragon heads biting the cup-shaped rim, splashed with an amber glaze stopping irregularly and exposing the unglazed lower body. 38.5cm (15 1/8in) high.

Footnotes

唐 褐釉雙龍盤口尊

Provenance: Bluett and Sons Ltd., London, 27 November 1989
A distinguished English private collection

來源:1989年11月27日,購於倫敦Bluett and Sons Ltd.
英國顯貴私人收藏

A related amphora, Tang dynasty, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and is illustrated by S.G.Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl.64. Another is illustrated by R.Y.Lefebvre d'Argence, The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, San Francisco, 1973, pl.50.

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