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PROPERTY FROM THE YANGDETANG COLLECTION
A HENAN BLACK-GLAZED BLUE-SPLASHED EWER
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
Details
A HENAN BLACK-GLAZED BLUE-SPLASHED EWER
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The ewer is potted with a globular body rising to a trumpet neck, the mouth and shoulder connected by the handle surmounted by a knob, the other side of the shoulder applied with a short spout, covered with a dark-brown glaze splashed with milky-blue mottling particularly to the upper section, the glaze stopping above the foot, exposing the pale grey body.
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high, box
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The ewer is potted with a globular body rising to a trumpet neck, the mouth and shoulder connected by the handle surmounted by a knob, the other side of the shoulder applied with a short spout, covered with a dark-brown glaze splashed with milky-blue mottling particularly to the upper section, the glaze stopping above the foot, exposing the pale grey body.
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Yangdetang Collection, acquired before 1985
Literature
Tan Dan-jiong, History of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Taipei, 1985, p. 94
Exhibited
National Museum of History, The Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, Taipei, 1987, Catalogue, p. 22
Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000- nen no seika (Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1992, no. 50
Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000- nen no seika (Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo, 1992, no. 50