A TRANSLUCENT PALE AQUA-BLUE GLASS OFFERING DISH

TANG-LIAO DYNASTY, 9TH-12TH CENTURY

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A TRANSLUCENT PALE AQUA-BLUE GLASS OFFERING DISH
TANG-LIAO DYNASTY, 9TH-12TH CENTURY
Raised on a low pedestal foot, with slightly flared, shallow, upright sides encircled by a raised edge at the bottom and at the rim
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 7b (right)

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Lot Essay

The shape of this dish is most likely to have been inspired by metal prototypes.

An analysis of this dish conducted at the Surface Science Laboratories, Mountain View, California, demonstrated that it is of Chinese origin.

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