A LARGE STRAW-GLAZED STONEWARE AMPHORA

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

細節

A LARGE STRAW-GLAZED STONEWARE AMPHORA
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The tall ovoid body tapering to a slightly spreading foot with flat base, with a pair of elongated dragon handles applied with bosses rising to the rim where the dragon heads bite the lipped edge of the cup-shaped rim surmounting the ribbed neck, covered with a transparent glaze of grey-green tone continuing over the rim and stopping in an irregular line on the lower body to expose the whitish wear
21 1/8 in. (53.7 cm.) high

來源

Acquired July 1992.

拍品專文

Two similar amphora of comparable size, from the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 63, nos. 85 and 86. Compare, also, another white ware amphora of similar size (55.5 cm. high) in the Nezu Museum, included in the inaugural exhibition of the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Masterworks of Eastern Ceramics, Aichi, 1994, no. 99.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P107x41 is consistent with the dating of this lot.