LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 8TH-10TH CENTURY

A Tang-dynasty olive-glazed bowl of similar shape and nearly identical size was unearthed in 1972 at the Famen temple, Shaanxi province, and is illustrated in Gifts of the Tang Emperors: Hidden Treasures from the Famen Temple, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1999, p. 121, no. 80.