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TANG DYNASTY, 8TH-9TH CENTURY
Details
Two Miniature Stoneware Ewers
Tang dynasty, 8th-9th century
One of Changsha type, with pear-shaped body and wide neck flaring to an everted rim, covered with a finely crackled transparent glaze of olive tint painted under the glaze with green foliate sprays either side of the short spout; the other of globular form with short spout, trumpet neck and boss terminals on the curved handle, the brown glaze falling to mid-body
3 5/16 and 3 3/8in. (8.4 and 8.6cm.) high, one box and stand
Falk Collection nos. 224 and 225. (2)
Tang dynasty, 8th-9th century
One of Changsha type, with pear-shaped body and wide neck flaring to an everted rim, covered with a finely crackled transparent glaze of olive tint painted under the glaze with green foliate sprays either side of the short spout; the other of globular form with short spout, trumpet neck and boss terminals on the curved handle, the brown glaze falling to mid-body
3 5/16 and 3 3/8in. (8.4 and 8.6cm.) high, one box and stand
Falk Collection nos. 224 and 225. (2)
Provenance
Brown ewer: Myron S. Falk Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Painted ewer: Mathias Komor, New York, September 1944.
Painted ewer: Mathias Komor, New York, September 1944.
Exhibited
Brown ewer: Early Chinese Miniatures, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1977, no. 128.