Lot 784
784
AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED SHALLOW BOWL
AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED SHALLOW BOWL
AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED SHALLOW BOWL
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SOLD BY THE YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ACQUISITION FUNDS
AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED SHALLOW BOWL

LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 8TH-10TH CENTURY

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AN OLIVE-GREEN-GLAZED SHALLOW BOWL
LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 8TH-10TH CENTURY
Possibly Shuiche kilns, Guangdong province, the bowl has shallow, straight sides, rising from a low foot ring, and is covered overall with a greyish-olive-toned glaze.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
John Hadley Cox (1913-2005) Collection, Washington, D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, accessioned in 1941.

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Lot Essay


A Tang-dynasty olive-glazed bowl of similar shape and nearly identical size was unearthed in 1972 at the Famen temple, Shaanxi province, and is illustrated in Gifts of the Tang Emperors: Hidden Treasures from the Famen Temple, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999, p. 121, no. 80.

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