TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A VERY RARE LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED TRIPOD DISH
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The interior of the tray is incised with a central flowerhead encircled by linked ruyi-heads forming a large florette within a border of detached clouds, all reserved on a resist-spotted ground, glazed alternately with green and amber. The three loop feet and exterior are covered with a clear glaze, stopping above the underside revealing the buff ware.
11 1/4 in. (28.7 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Chu Cheng Tang Ltd., Taipei, 29 May 1985
Yangdetang Collection

Lot Essay

Sancai dishes of this size and rich design are very rare. A similar dish of larger size (38.1 cm.), from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 37, pl. 25. The author proposes that the decoration on dishes of this type would have been inspired by the chased decoration on silver. Compare also to another similarly decorated sancai dish with a slightly different flowerhead design and a wavy pattern on the mouth rim, covered with a green glaze on the exterior, in the Eisei Bunko Collection, Tokyo, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 54.

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