AN UNUSUAL SANCAI-GLAZED OVOID POTTERY EWER WITH PHOENIX HANDLES

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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AN UNUSUAL SANCAI-GLAZED OVOID POTTERY EWER WITH PHOENIX HANDLES
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The ovoid body tapering to the flat base, with a pair of double-strap handles applied with two bosses terminating in dragon heads that bite the edge of the cup-shaped mouth rim surmounting the waisted neck, covered with a resist-splashed glaze of green, amber and straw color falling in an irregular line on the lower body
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

This vessel is based on earlier Sui dynasty prototypes, such as the green-glazed example excavated in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province in 1958, illustrated by C. and M. Beurdeley, A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1974, p. 81, no. 53. For a sancai splash-glazed ewer similar to the present example, but with a grooved neck and vestigal cock's head, see the example from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe: Reemtsma Collection, Hamburg, illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, pl. 71.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C105r94 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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