A Rare Blue and Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish

TANG DYNASTY

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A Rare Blue and Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish
Tang Dynasty
The interior of the shallow dish impressed with a design of six ducks in flight amidst clouds, all picked out in blue, green and amber and reserved on a pale straw glaze which continues over the everted rim to end in an irregular line above the three similarly glazed paw supports exposing the pale buff ware
116in. (29.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Tripod dishes with this design and use of blue glaze are quite rare. Compare the example of similar size glazed in green, blue and amber, but with a single goose in flight amidst clouds reserved within a central round medallion from which lotus leaves and clouds radiate, in the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated by Hsien-ch'i Tseng and Robert P. Dart, Chinese Art: Neolithic Period through the T'ang Dynasty and Sino-Siberian Bronzes, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1964, vol. I, pl. 92. See, also, the dish with a single central flying goose excavated in Luoyang in 1975 and illustrated in Da Sancai (The Great Sancai), The Luoyang Museum and The Liaoning Provincial Museum, Tokyo, 1989, pp. 58-59, pl. 45.

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