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拍品專文
A very similar example of this beautiful and elaborate form in the collection of a Japanese university Museum is illustrated in Toji Taikei, vol. 35, Tang Sancai, Heibonsha Series, Tokyo, 1977, p. 111, no. 38. The museum piece is slightly taller and around the lower edge of the crown-like upper section it has ruyi-shaped appliqués, rather than the flower-heads on the current example.
The elephant-shaped feet are rare on Tang dynasty vessels, but are nevertheless in keeping with the fascination with exoticism at the Tang court in the first part of the 8th century. Elephants occasionally appear on the shoulders of sancai vessels, as on the high-footed coverd jar in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, excavated at Zhongbao village, Xi'an, in 1959, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji 7 Tang Sancai, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1983, no. 13.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence analysis test, no.C101j69, is consistant with the dating of this lot.
The elephant-shaped feet are rare on Tang dynasty vessels, but are nevertheless in keeping with the fascination with exoticism at the Tang court in the first part of the 8th century. Elephants occasionally appear on the shoulders of sancai vessels, as on the high-footed coverd jar in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, excavated at Zhongbao village, Xi'an, in 1959, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji 7 Tang Sancai, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1983, no. 13.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence analysis test, no.C101j69, is consistant with the dating of this lot.