A RARE PALE GREEN AND STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY EWER

PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Details

A RARE PALE GREEN AND STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY EWER
TANG DYNASTY

Of ovoid form, with a tapering, octagonal spout set on the shoulder opposite a handle formed by the fully extended body of a well-modeled lion pulling itself up onto the everted rim as it peers into the interior of the neck, covered with a crackle-suffused glaze of cream color splashed in pale leaf green continuing into the interior and under the foot rim to end in an uneven line around the unglazed, slightly concave center of the base exposing the pale buff ware, some glaze flaking
7¼in. (18.4cm.) high

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc III

Lot Essay

Although a number of Tang ewers of similar shape are published, examples modeled with a lion-form handle are rare. Compare a plain white ware example, illustrated by Mario Prodan, The Art of the T'ang Potter, New York, 1961, no. 105

The result of Oxford Thermoluminescence test no. 766m61 is consistent
with the dating of this lot