A Rare Green and Amber-Glazed Circular Vessel and Cover

TANG DYNASTY

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A Rare Green and Amber-Glazed Circular Vessel and Cover
Tang Dynasty
The slightly domed cover and sides resist-glazed with a well-controlled pattern of dots, the lower section with a wide, canted, unglazed rim surrounding a central aperture
3.5/8in. (9.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

This unusual covered vessel formed as a circular box is most likely based on a metal prototype. Several other covered boxes of circular form with spotted resist-glazed decoration are illustrated in the catalogue for the exhibition, Tokubetsu Tenshu Higashi Ajia no Futamono (Special Exhibition of Covered Boxes from East Asia), Japan, 1984, p. 19, figs. 22-21.

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