A Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish
A Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish

TANG DYNASTY

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A Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish
Tang Dynasty
The interior impressed with a central blossom encircled by linked petals forming a large florette within a border of detached clouds, all reserved on a resist-spotted ground, the exterior, underside and three loop feet covered in a pale green glaze of bright tone
11.5/8in. (29.9cm.) diam.

拍品專文

A similar dish centered by a flowerhead of slightly different shape, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 37, pl. 25. The author proposes that the decoration on dishes of this type would have been inspired by the chased decoration on silver.