LATE TANG DYNASTY, 9TH/10TH CENTURY

An example of similar size, but with a slightly more squat body of less elegant proportions and incised with panels of foliate decoration framed by demi-rosettes, was unearthed at Sanmenxia City, Henan province, see The Silk Road, Treasures of Tang China, Singapore, 1991, Catalogue, p. 110 (right). For a box and cover with comparable incised decoration, described as Yueh, from the Percival David Foundation, see Margaret Medley, Tang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 112, col. pl. P. A related fish-shaped flask from the same collection is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Shogakukan, Japan, 1976, vol. 11, p. 159, fig. 151. Compare also, the Yueyao flask with straps loops and incised decoration dated Six Dynasties, illustrated in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1964, Catalogue, vol. I, no. 78; and the flask with strap loops but undecorated, included in Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, Catalogue, no. 366, from the Kempe Collection.