Lot 52
52
A SANCAI-GLAZED TWO-HANDLED BOWL

Details
A SANCAI-GLAZED TWO-HANDLED BOWL
TANG DYNASTY

Of globular form supported on a flat circular base, applied with a pair of lug handles joined to projecting bosses at the incurved rim, decorated in a resist glaze of green, amber and cream over white slip in a stylized pattern of floral clusters and stopping short of the unglazed lower body, restoration--6 1/2in. (16.6cm.) across handles
Exhibited
Baltimore, Baltimore Musuem of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 50

Lot Essay

A jar of this unusual form, splashed in blue glaze, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodansha, 1980, vol. 10, no. 60; and another, covered in a white glaze, is illustrated by Prodan, The Art of the T'ang Potter, New York, 1961, pl. III