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AN UNUSUAL SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY JAR
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The jar is decorated with green and amber glazes that fall in
streaks on the straw-glazed ground inside the cup-shaped
mouth and on the exterior of the compressed body which is
applied with six foliate medallions.
4¿ in. (10.5 cm.) high

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.

唐 三彩貼花唾壺

878
A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY ‘LION’ PILLOW
LIAO DYNASTY (AD 907-1125)
The pillow is hollow-molded below the amber-glazed top with
a recumbent lion with snarling expression and bushy tail picked
out in amber, green, cream and brown glaze.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Bishop W. C. White (1873-1960) Collection, former Keeper of the
East Asiatic Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 12-13 March 1975, lot 278.
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.

遼 三彩獅枕

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