TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY PHOENIX-HANDLED EWER
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The high shoulder of the ovoid body applied with a small bird's head and scored with a grooved band interrupted by a pair of applied loops and by the terminus of the double-strap handle enclosing a ball at its base and surmounted on top by a phoenix head biting the lip of the galleried rim surmounting the ribbed, reel-shaped neck, covered overall in a splashed and streaked glaze of amber, leaf green and cream color falling irregularly onto the rim of the slightly concave base exposing the buff ware
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) high

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, September 1990.

Lot Essay

Compare a similar ewer dated to the first half of the 8th century in the Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe: Reemtsma Collection, Hamburg, illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, pl. 71. Compare, also, another example, but with a different glaze pattern, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, rev. ed., Tokyo, 1976, vol. 11, pl. 225 and again in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, pl. 231.

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