TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY BOTTLE
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The ovoid body surmounted by a tall, slender neck rising to an everted rim, covered in a clear straw glaze streaked in green and dark amber falling irregularly onto the flat base, the streaking on the mouth rim forming stripes
9½ in. (24 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Three Tang dynasty bottles of this form in the Royal Ontario Museum, one a sancai-glazed example similar to the present bottle, one a bronze example and one in clear-glazed stoneware, illustrate the popularity of this form during the Tang dynasty. See Royal Ontario Museum: The T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art, 1996, pl. 67. A very similar bottle from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection was sold in these rooms, 20 March 2001, lot 119.

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