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唐 三彩陶萬年蓋罐兩件
The globular jar and cover is a classic Tang dynasty shape, called wan nian guan (ten-thousand-year jar), usually covered with a monochrome glaze of green, yellow, white, or blue, and occasionally with the white-spotted sancai glaze. It is very rare to see the cross-hatch pattern such as the present example.
A very similar jar and cover is in the collection of 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. 221, no. 204, where the author describes using wax-resist method for the glazing and noted that the design may have been inspired by Tang dynasty textiles.
See another example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 December 2021, lot 835.