Lot Essay
A nearly identical rhyton is illustrated in Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art: Tang Three-colored Pottery, Part II, Taipei, 1984, p. 265, fig. 122.
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TANG DYNASTY
Details
A Rare Green-Glazed Molded Pottery Rhyton
Tang Dynasty
The rhyton-shaped cup with a granulated surface overlapped by scrolling tendrils and leaves issuing from the curved neck of the handle terminating in the head of a dragon with a pearl clasped in its jaws, covered overall with a leaf-green glaze
5¼in. (13.3cm.) long, wood stand
Tang Dynasty
The rhyton-shaped cup with a granulated surface overlapped by scrolling tendrils and leaves issuing from the curved neck of the handle terminating in the head of a dragon with a pearl clasped in its jaws, covered overall with a leaf-green glaze
5¼in. (13.3cm.) long, wood stand
Provenance
Eskenazi, London, no. C244