Sale 9082
New York, Park Avenue
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22 March 1999
Price realised
USD 16,100
Estimate
A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURE OF AN EARTH SPIRIT Tang Dynasty The well-modeled figure shown seated on a rockwork base, with amber-glazed body and belly and wings striped in green, amber and cream, the large elephantine ears and fiercely scowling humanoid face left unglazed below unusual intertwined horns set in front of a forked crest rising from the cream-glazed fin-like spine extending up the back 35in. (90.2cm.) high
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The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C198t7 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
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