A transparent-glazed stoneware bowl, Tang dynasty

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A transparent-glazed stoneware bowl, Tang dynasty
With deep rounded sides and finely crackled glaze; a greyish-green glazed bowl, probably Korean; a crackled celadon glazed dish; a qingbai-type paste box with moulded stylised flower sprays; a green-glazed jar with two loop handles -- maximum 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam.; a lobed iron-brown glazed vase; and a turquoise and amber glazed Ming-style moonflask, all Song dynasty and later -- maximum 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high. (8)

Provenance

The white-glazed Tang bowl was purchased by Mrs Leon Feuchtwanger in Berlin in 1929 from Ernst Cassirer (brother of the art dealer Paul Cassirer).
Andrew Franklin purchased the lot from Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, June 1965, cat. 483, lot 92.

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Sale room notice

The white-glaze small paste box in the illustration has been withdrawn from this lot.

Lot Essay

A similar white-glazed Tang bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by W.B. Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries of the Far East, London, 1945, pl. 33a.
Another in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is illustrated by P. Swann, Art of China, Korean and Japan, London, 1963, pl. 116, p. 128.

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