Lot Essay
This amphora is somewhat larger than many recorded examples with similar sancai glazes. Smaller amphorae, approximately 11¼in., 29cm. high, can be found in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics - The World's Great Collections, vol.7, colour plate 7; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Mrs. Stanley Herzman, illustrated by S. G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics: Revised and Enlarged Edition, 1989, no.58, and by Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, no.8, p.18; another in the Metropolitan Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics - The World's Great Collections, vol.11, no.18; and the Eumorfopoulos example, exhibited in Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, The Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1911, Catalogue, pl.VIII, no.A66.