TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY BASIN
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The interior is impressed with a stylized flower head formed by a central flower encircled by six conjoined petals reserved on a cream and amber resist-spotted ground below five amber, green and cream-glazed curved panels pendent from the green and white-striped rim. A pale amber glaze falls in an irregular line on the exterior exposing the buff ware.
10¼ in. (26.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1986.

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Lot Essay

A sancai-glazed basin of similar shape, and with similar decoration, is illustrated by J. Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, pl. 48. Another similar example is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 103, pl. 284.

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