A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY AMPHORA

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY AMPHORA
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
Elegantly potted with tapering ovoid body, slender waisted neck and a pair of curved double-strap handles applied with bosses and terminating in dragon heads that bite the dish-shaped mouth, all splash-glazed in green, amber and clear glaze that also covers the high, rounded shoulder and ends in an irregular line on the fine- grained buff body, raised on a flat foot with beveled edge
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high, wood box

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 12-13 March 1975, lot 194.

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Lot Essay

The fine potting and glazing of this amphora are similar to that of a smaller (35.3 cm.) example illustrated in Toji Zenshu - To Sansai, vol. 25, Japan, 1961, no. 8. Others, also of smaller size, are in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1981, col. pl. 7; and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989 (rev. ed.), no. 58.

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