A FINE SANCAI AND BLUE-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY TRIPOD DISH, the centre of the interior incised with an hexafoil flower-head within rows of radiating overlapping petals under green, cream, amber and blue glazes below the amber and cream-spotted well, the everted border with raised outer rim under a green glaze merging to amber on the reverse, supported on three short cabriole feet attached to the unglazed base and with splashes of ochre glaze at their widest parts (some restoration),

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A FINE SANCAI AND BLUE-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY TRIPOD DISH, the centre of the interior incised with an hexafoil flower-head within rows of radiating overlapping petals under green, cream, amber and blue glazes below the amber and cream-spotted well, the everted border with raised outer rim under a green glaze merging to amber on the reverse, supported on three short cabriole feet attached to the unglazed base and with splashes of ochre glaze at their widest parts (some restoration),

Tang Dynasty
23.8cm. diam., fitted box

Lot Essay

Cf. Idemitsu Museum, 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, p.159, pl.613; The Arts of the Tang Dynasty, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum, 1957, pl.204; Mizimo Seichi, To Sansai, Toji Taikei, No.75, Tokyo 1977, no.55; Chinese Ceramics, Han - Tang Dynasty, p.310; The Silk Road, Treasures of Tang China, Exhibition Catalogue, The Empress Palace Museum, Singapore, 1991, p.97; A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, fig. 10, p.41; The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics I, Catalogue, pl.139; and Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, 1988, vol.1, pl.240, p.62
A similar dish, but with a goose roundel at the centre, from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, was sold at Christies New York, 1 December 1994, lot 148

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