A BLUE AND AMBER-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Details

A BLUE AND AMBER-GLAZED POTTERY BOWL
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
With rounded sides rising from the flared foot to the slightly everted rim, the center of the interior decorated with a grouping of small five-petalled flowers with blue-splashed petals and amber centers below five sections of blue stripes at the rim, all reserved on a clear straw glaze that continues over the rim atop a white slip that ends mid-body to expose the buff-colored body
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired prior to 1995.

Lot Essay

The style of painting on this bowl is quite unusual, but can be seen on a shard of a bowl with similar cobalt and amber decoration, illustrated in the transcript of Wang Liying's lecture, The Ancient Chinese Ceramics Research Society, TOCS, vol. 69, 2004-2005, p. 20, fig. 3b.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P107x43 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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