TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A BLUE AND AMBER-GLAZED BOWL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The bowl has rounded sides that rise from the flared foot to the slightly everted rim and is decorated on the interior with a grouping of small flowers comprised of five blue petals and an amber center below five sections of blue stripes at the rim, all under a clear straw glaze that continues over the rim, over a white slip that stops above the foot.
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) diam.

Provenance

In Hong Kong by 1995.
Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 241.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.

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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', T.O.C.S., vol. 69, 2004-2005, p. 20, fig. 3b. See, also, the similar bowl sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1284.

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

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