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Lot 59

TWO SIMILAR SANCAI AND BLUE-GLAZED GLOBULAR JARS AND COVERS
Tang Dynasty

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

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TWO SIMILAR SANCAI AND BLUE-GLAZED GLOBULAR JARS AND COVERS

Tang Dynasty
Both with waisted everted rims, one rim ochre-glazed, the other green, and each with five triangular lappets that descend just below the mid-body that are outlined in blue, ochre and straw dots and centered by dabs of color forming flowerheads, all set against a green ground with further wax-resist dots of stylized flowerheads, the glaze stopping about two-thirds of the way down the vessels and revealing the buff pottery body beneath, the bases flat, the lightly domed covers with simple bud finials.
7 1/4in (18.4cm) high; 9 1/5in (23.5cm) with cover approx. (2).

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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.

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