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A molded sancai-glazed pottery pilgrim's flask, Tang dynasty | 唐 三彩印樂舞圖扁壺
Auction Closed
September 22, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A molded sancai-glazed pottery pilgrim's flask
Tang dynasty
唐 三彩印樂舞圖扁壺
the flattened circular body resting on a spreading pedestal foot and rising to a waisted neck and oblong galleried rim, a pair of loop handles applied to the shoulders, each broad side molded with a figure dancing with a sash atop a base and flanked by curling scrollwork, set within a lobed frame, all under vibrant splashes of green, amber, and cream glazes, the base unglazed to reveal the buff body
Height 6¼ in., 15.8 cm
Acquired prior to 2000.
來源
得於2000年之前
Extant flasks molded with this dancing figure vary in glaze color and in the forms of the neck and foot. A similarly designed sancai-glazed flask with a punched ground and floriform neck is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, illustrated in Beatrice Jansen, Chinese Ceramiek, The Hague, 1976, pl. 49. Another was excavated at Ganjing, Heyang County, and is now in the Heyang County Museum, shown in Chen Anli, ed., Zhonghua guo bao: Tang sancai juan, Xi'an, 1998, pl. 49. Compare also a green-glazed example, illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Korean, and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, vol I, London, 1925, pl. 24, no. 162.