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    Sale 9210

    Fine Chinese Furniture, Ceramics and Works of Art

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    16 September 1999

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    • A Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod
    Lot 292

    A Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish

    TANG DYNASTY

    Price realised

    USD 14,950

    Estimate

    USD 7,000 - USD 10,000

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    A Sancai-Glazed Pottery Tripod Offering Dish
    Tang Dynasty
    The interior impressed with a central blossom encircled by linked petals forming a large florette within a border of detached clouds, all reserved on a resist-spotted ground, the exterior, underside and three loop feet covered in a pale green glaze of bright tone
    11.5/8in. (29.9cm.) diam.

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    Lot Essay

    A similar dish centered by a flowerhead of slightly different shape, 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.

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