TANG DYNASTY, CHANGSHA, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

The pair of dishes is finely molded in flower form. The remains of a larger, rather more elaborate molded dish, also of flower form, with thin, dark olive glaze was excavated from the Changsha kilns in Hunan; see P. Hughes-Stanton and R. Kerr, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1980, p. 59, no. 300. The interior base of this fragment is edged with thin double relief lines, like the Falk dishes, and the well is also decorated with scrolls depicted in thin relief lines. A cup stand and fluted cup with similar glaze and fine line relief decoration in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, are illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1982, no. 74, where they are attributed to the Changsha kilns and dated to the 9th century, Tang dynasty.