TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

A very similar sancai-glazed goose-form vessel, but with less detail on the neck, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated in R. L. d’Argence, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, pl. XXVb and on the front cover. Another similar goose-form vessel, partially glazed in blue, in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Special Exhibition Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1994, p. 89, fig. 126. See, also, a smaller example found in Xin’an county, Henan province, and now in the Henan Provincial Museum, illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 44, fig. 23.