A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY OVOID JAR

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY OVOID JAR
Tang dynasty (618-907)
The sides applied with three large, crisply molded flowerhead medallions overlapping a double grooved band on the high shoulder and covered with a green, amber and cream-splashed glaze beginning below the amber-glazed neck and everted rim and falling irregularly on the lower body to expose the pale buff ware
11¾in. (30cm.) high

Lot Essay

A number of very similar sancai-glazed ovoid jars with similarly crisply molded flowerhead medallions exist in important collections. Compare the jar, a 'registered important art object', in the Ataka Collection, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, no. 226, and the jar in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by J. Mayuyama (ed.), Chinese Ceramics in the West, Tokyo, 1960, p. 5, no. 5. See, also, the comparable jar illustrated by Masahiko Sato and Gakuji Hasebe, Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 11, p. 48, no. 33.
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666x55 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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