TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Details

A VERY RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY GOOSE-FORM VESSEL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The vessel is very finely modeled as a plump goose, the body covered in a rich amber glaze, the wings and tail feathers covered in a combination of green, amber and cream glazes, the head with a green crest and amber beak, the back with a wide circular aperture, and the body and neck with realistically-modeled feathers.
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) long

Provenance

Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1997.

Literature

Eskenazi Ltd., Ceramic sculpture from Han and Tang China, New York, 1997, p. 42, no. 13.

Exhibited

New York, Eskenazi Ltd., Ceramic sculpture from Han and Tang China, 19 to 26 March 1997.

Lot Essay

A very similar sancai-glazed goose-form vessel, but with less detail on the neck, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated in R. L. d’Argence, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, pl. XXVb and on the front cover. Another similar goose-form vessel, partially glazed in blue, in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Special Exhibition Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1994, p. 89, fig. 126. See, also, a smaller example found in Xin’an county, Henan province, and now in the Henan Provincial Museum, illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 44, fig. 23.

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