AN UNUSUAL STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY CANDLE HOLDER

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AN UNUSUAL STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY CANDLE HOLDER
EARLY TANG DYNASTY

The cylindrical holder with wide, deep pan supported by a long-limbed smiling foreign rider on the back of an elephant standing on a ring foot and molded fully caparisoned, covered with a pale straw glaze terminating irregularly on the lappet-molded foot, some restoration --8in. (20.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similar candle-holder included in the exhibition, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, Asia Society, 1980, illustrated by Brinker and Fischer in the Catalogue, no. 46

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666w85 is consistent with the dating of this lot