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A pair of celadon saucer dishes with Jingwei tang zhi hall marks 18th/19th century
TRÈS RARE ET BELLE ASSIETTE EN LAQUE SCULPTÉE Marque et époque Jiajing (1522-1566)
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A blue-ground sancai-glazed impressed pale pottery jar Tang Dynasty image 1
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Lot 80

A blue-ground sancai-glazed impressed pale pottery jar
Tang Dynasty

Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A blue-ground sancai-glazed impressed pale pottery jar

Tang Dynasty
Of globular outline, the body primarily blue-glazed with areas of resist decoration with straw and ochre spotting, a molded line below the rounded shoulder which is impressed with eight five-petalled half-flowerheads, the waisted everted neck under an ochre glaze which continues to the neck interior.
8 1/2in (21.5cm) diam.

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唐 三彩罐

PROVENANCE
Japanese Private Collection

來源
日本私人珍藏

For a similar sized jar with a speckled blue glaze from the Baur Collection, Geneva, Switzerland, no. 596, see William Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, P. 165, fig 157, where it is assigned to manufacture in Henan or Shaanxi Provence around the first half of the 8th century, and where the unusual combination of colors, reserved passages of cream and dabs of brown set on a blue ground, are remarked on.

A smaller blue and sancai-glazed jar with applied medallions rather than impressed ones is illustrated by Ben Janssens, TEFAF 2015 Catalogue, and www.benjanssens.com - Pottery, un-numbered. Another sold at Christie's, New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1451.

For a plain blue-glazed jar, see Sotheby's, London, Tang Sancai-The Sze Yaun Tang Collection, 4 November 2020, lot 212.

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A pair of celadon saucer dishes with Jingwei tang zhi hall marks 18th/19th century
TRÈS RARE ET BELLE ASSIETTE EN LAQUE SCULPTÉE Marque et époque Jiajing (1522-1566)