LIAO DYNASTY (907-1125)

Details

A MOULDED SANCAI-GLAZED OCTAGONAL INKSTONE
LIAO DYNASTY (907-1125)
The top is moulded with a bracket-lobed recessed water receptacle moulded with a single spray of peony, levelling to an unglazed grinding surface, surrounded by moulded peony sprays on the well. The facetted sides are decorated with alternating panels of leaping beasts and diaper patterns. The vessel is covered overall with cream, amber and green glazes, the green glaze extending to the countersunk base.
6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm.) wide, box

Provenance

Galaxie Art & Gift Company, Hong Kong, 27 November 1993
Yangdetang Collection

Lot Essay

This current lot and lot 91 function both as an inkstone and a brush washer. Several similar examples, one octagonal and three circular ones, were included in the National Museum of Chinese History Museum exhibition Exhibition on the Collected Treasures of Liao Dynasty from Inner Mongolia, Beijing, 2002, pp. 302-308. Another circular example is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji -17- Liao, Shanghai, 1986, pl. 61.

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