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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
A SANCAI-GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Details
A SANCAI-GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The rounded body is raised on three animal-claw feet and incised with double lines at the shoulder, all beneath a creamy glaze splashed with ochre, yellow and green and dripping unevenly below the ochre-glazed waisted neck and everted rim. The interior is covered in a thin glaze of creamy-yellow color.
7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) diam.
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The rounded body is raised on three animal-claw feet and incised with double lines at the shoulder, all beneath a creamy glaze splashed with ochre, yellow and green and dripping unevenly below the ochre-glazed waisted neck and everted rim. The interior is covered in a thin glaze of creamy-yellow color.
7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Mathias Komor, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections, by 1962.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections, by 1962.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.
Exhibited
New York, Columbia University, Lowe Memorial Library, The Columbia University Exhibition of 3000 Years of the Ceramic Art and Ancient Sculpture of China from the Sackler Collections, 11 November 1962 - 18 January 1963.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1987.