TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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, and another, 30 March 2005, lot 256.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. test no. C105u15 is consistent with the dating of this lot.