TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A SANCAI-GLAZED APPLIQUE-DECORATED TRIPOD JAR
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The globular body is supported on three animal-claw feet and has a waisted neck with flared rim. The sides are decorated with alternating large and small molded floral appliques, and are covered with streaked glazes of green, amber and cream color that fall towards the lower body revealing the buff ware.
7 in. (18 cm.) high

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19-20 February 1958, lot 281.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Else Sackler, and thence by descent within the family.

Lot Essay

Compare the sancai-glazed pottery tripod jar with very similar molded floral appliques, but of smaller size (13.3 cm. high), from the Dexinshuwu Collection, included in The Special Exhibition of Tang Tri-Colour, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, p. 139, and subsequently sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 3.

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