拍品專文
Bo Gyllensvard discusses the origin of this form in "T'ang Gold and Silver", B.M.F.E.A., Stockholm, 1957, p. 75, where he states that the holy water bottle of Buddhist monks was considered a novelty by Yi Jing, the Chinese Buddhist who saw it in India in A.D. 671. The author illustrates Chinese bronze and pottery examples alongside Central Asian and Indian prototypes, including a drawing of how they were used.
An almost identical example, also glazed green is illustrated in Zhonghua wuqian nian wenwu jikan (Tang Sancai), Taipei, 1984, vol. 2, fig. 85, and in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha, Japan, 1983, vol. 3, from the Museum Pusat, Jakarta; see another in Sekai toji zenshu, Shogakukan, Japan, 1976, vol. 13, col. pl. 111; also in the Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition; Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1985, Catalogue, no. 123, from the Collection of Ip Che. Another from the Brooklyn Museum of Art was exhibited in Chinese Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, Catalogue, no. 264.
A Tang bronze example is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1989, pl. 328.
A white-glazed example sold in Christie's, London, December 9, 1991, lot 2.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C198p31 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
An almost identical example, also glazed green is illustrated in Zhonghua wuqian nian wenwu jikan (Tang Sancai), Taipei, 1984, vol. 2, fig. 85, and in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha, Japan, 1983, vol. 3, from the Museum Pusat, Jakarta; see another in Sekai toji zenshu, Shogakukan, Japan, 1976, vol. 13, col. pl. 111; also in the Min Chiu Society Silver Jubilee Exhibition; Anthology of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1985, Catalogue, no. 123, from the Collection of Ip Che. Another from the Brooklyn Museum of Art was exhibited in Chinese Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, Catalogue, no. 264.
A Tang bronze example is illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1989, pl. 328.
A white-glazed example sold in Christie's, London, December 9, 1991, lot 2.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C198p31 is consistent with the dating of this lot.