A Small Straw-Glazed Marbleized Pottery Dish

TANG DYNASTY

Details

A Small Straw-Glazed Marbleized Pottery Dish
Tang Dynasty
With shallow, rounded sides rising from the flat base, the two-color pottery with a fine marbled pattern covered in a clear straw glaze shading to bright yellow in the center and on the underside, with three spur marks on the interior and base
4.7/8in. (12.4cm.) diam.

Provenance

Ruth Dreyfus Collection, no. 137
John Sparks Ltd., London
Christie's, New York, 1 December 1994, lot 150, Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

Exhibited

Israel, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 9 July - 31 October 1987.

Lot Essay

Marbling, by layering or folding together and then cutting two colors of clay, became popular in the Tang dynasty. These wares are usually covered with a pale yellow or amber glaze, as in the present lot.

A similar dish of the same size is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, p. 108, no. 307.

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 366r95 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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