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Lot 57

A GROUP OF THREE SANCAI GLAZED CERAMICS
Tang Dynasty

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
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A GROUP OF THREE SANCAI GLAZED CERAMICS

Tang Dynasty
Comprising an impressed small rectangular model of a pillow; a small globular jar and cover; and a shallow cylindrical box and cover, the first with four rows of five impressed four-petaled flowerheads to the top and to the underside and divided on the shallow sides with a spotted sancai glaze; the second with an incurving mouth and shallow domed cover with bud finial under a most attractive spotted glaze; the third with a shallowly domed cover with green and brown spotted glaze above vertical bands of color to the short sides.
pillow: 4 1/8in (10.5cm) across;
jar and cover: 3 3/8in (8.5cm) across;
box and cover: 3 15/16in (10cm) diam
(3).

Footnotes

唐 三彩印花紋陶方枕 三彩陶蓋罐 三彩陶圓盒 各一件

Small sancai-glazed pottery artifacts were used as personal accessories. Their prototypes may have came from silver wares, but the vibrant glaze colors have made them appealing to a wide audience. The rectangular pillow may be used as wrist rest when writing calligraphy. The covered jar may be used to store medicine or tea. The circular box may be used as container for incense, medicine, perfume paste, or cosmetic powder.

Compare the blue- and sancai-glazed rectangular pillow in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 232-233, no. 212.

Compare the green-glazed white spotted circular box in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 197, no. 182; together with another blue- and sancai-glazed circular box, op. cit., on p. 229.

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