TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A BLUE-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY BOWL
Tang dynasty (618-907)
The deep rounded body rising from a flared foot ring with beveled outer edge, covered inside with a deep blue glaze continuing over the everted rim and ending in an irregular line on the exterior just below the angular median edge that encircles the sides to expose the buff ware
8in. (20.3cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Glazed pottery bowls of this shape are based on silver prototypes with a seamed body and undecorated surface such as the bowl unearthed from Hejia Village, Xi'an, Shaanxi province in 1970. That bowl dated to the late 7th-early 8th century had six characters painted on the base which indicated its weight, '11.1 taels plus'. See Yu Weichao (ed.), A Journey into China's Antiquity, Beijing, 1997, vol. 3, p. 120, no. 119.
A similar blue-glazed bowl of this shape is illustrated by Li Zhi Yan, The Art of Glazed Pottery of China, 1989, p. 17, no. 70.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C103a71 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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