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Lot 58

A SANCAI GLAZED AMPHORA
Tang Dynasty

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

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A SANCAI GLAZED AMPHORA

Tang Dynasty
Of elegant slender oviform shape and supported on a short slightly flaring circular foot, the shoulder with a single molded bow-string band below the tall waisted neck and flaring rim, under a most attractive sancai glaze of ochre, green and straw tones that pool slightly unevenly at the foot and over the base edge revealing the pink pottery beneath.
9 3/8in (23.8cm) high

Footnotes

唐 三彩陶淨瓶

For a similar example see Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 91, no. 242 and another is illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection. Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, Vol. 1, London, 1925-2, Vol. 1, pl. xlix, no. 328, both bear the same idiosyncratic wax-resist technique of three-colors that dribble attractively from the tall neck to the slightly spreading foot.

Another example of this decoration is illustrated in the catalog organized by the Nezu Institute of Arts, Tang Pottery and Porcelain, Tokyo, 1988, p. 45, no. 41.

The result of the thermoluminescence testing is consistent with the suggested dating of this piece, Oxford Authentication sample No. C123p16.

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