A 'sancai'-glazed pottery amphora Tang dynasty

the ovoid body below a waisted neck, the handles formed by a pair of confronting dragons rising from the shoulder and arching to bite the everted mouth rim, the mythical beasts adorned with pointed ears and scrolling horns, their backs accented with four pearl-shaped bosses, the green, amber and straw glaze pooling from the top and stopping in irregularly-shaped loops mid-body, revealing the pinkish-buff ware

M. Komor (until 30th April 1948).
The Georges deBatz Collection (until 1983).
Christie's New York, 30th November 1983, lot 303.
Thereafter with the present owners.

Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics and European Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1953, cat.no. 29.

The amphora is in good condition overall and was inspected under UV light. There is a line of minor surface abrasion to the body just below the glaze. A glaze chip to the body 1/8 inch long, as well as a 1/2 inch shallow chip to the edge of the lip. The color is consistent with the catalogue image.
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Compare a closely related vase in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 25; another in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, included in the exhibition Idemitsu Fifteenth Anniversary, Tokyo, 1981, cat. no. 609; and a third published in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1956, pl. 51. A similarly glazed example of this size and form was sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 10th November 1981, lot 124.