A RARE GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED POTTERY RIBBED TRIPOD VESSEL, LIAN

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Details

A RARE GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED POTTERY RIBBED TRIPOD VESSEL, LIAN
Tang dynasty (618-907)
The interior covered in a thin yellowish ochre glaze and the ribbed exterior and feet with a green glaze
6 3/8in. (16.2cm.) diam.

Provenance

Professor Jan Hellner Collection.

Literature

O. Siren, Histoire des Arts Anciens de la Chine: L'Époque Han et les Six Dynasties, Paris and Brussels, 1929, vol. II, pl. 106B.

Lot Essay

This rare lian is similar to one of slightly smaller size, also covered with a green glaze on the exterior and a yellow glaze on the interior, illustrated by d'Argencé, The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, Japan, 1973, pp. 92-3, no. 57, and a slightly larger one is in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 61, no. 236.

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