A RARE AMBER-GLAZED MOLDED POTTERY FLASK

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A RARE AMBER-GLAZED MOLDED POTTERY FLASK
SUI/TANG DYNASTY

The rounded, tapering body molded in relief on two sides with leafy, intertwined tendrils forming an intricate arabesque culminating at the base of the neck in a small four-petaled blossom and contained within the plain raised bands which run vertically up the narrow sides from the foot to the shoulder and a pair of pierced, leaf scroll handles, with molded bands of foliate scroll encircling the elliptical mouth and foot rims, covered overall with a finely crackled amber glaze continuing into the neck and under the foot rim
8¼in. (20.9cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

A flask of this type, also molded with foliate scroll on the body and foot, but covered with a sancai glaze, in the Warren E. Cox Collection, was included in the exhibition, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum, January 8-February 17, 1957, Catalogue, no. 189. Another was sold in our London rooms, December 11, 1989, lot 82