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AN AMBER- AND GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY PROPERTY OF A LADY
CUP A LARGE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A
TANG DYNASTY PRANCING HORSE
the sides molded as a tree trunk set over a flat base, a TANG DYNASTY
branch rising on one side and connecting at the rim to form well-modeled in a spirited pose with a briskly raised right
a handle, one side of the cup with a small monkey and a bird, foreleg, the head with well-articulated features, mouth
the exterior covered overall with an amber glaze, the interior
glazed in rich green tones, Japanese wood box (3) agape, flaring nostrils, bulging eyes and a divided forelock
Length 3¼ in., 8.2 cm swept to either side of the pricked ears, the arched neck with
full flowing mane falling just short of the saddle and pleated
PROVENANCE saddle cloth, traces of red pigment
Height 23 in., 58.4 cm
My Gallery Arts & Antiques, Hong Kong, 2000.
Hong Kong Private Collection. PROVENANCE
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 9th February 1970.
⊖ $ 6,000-8,000
$ 20,000-30,000
唐 三彩模印樹樁式小盃
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來源： 唐 陶加彩馬
有明堂，香港，2000年 來源：
香港私人收藏 Sydney L. Moss Ltd.，倫敦，1970年2月9日

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PROPERTY FROM THE ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY
A ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON MULTI-SPOUTED JAR
AND COVER
168 NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
formed as three stacked bulbs diminishing in size as they
A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY EWER ascend, each bulb incised with overlapping petals carefully
TANG DYNASTY detailed with fine striations, the middle bulb set with five
faceted upright mock-spouts, the tips of the spouts carved
finely potted, the pear-shaped body rising from a slightly with a serrated edge, all set over a slightly splayed foot and
splayed foot to a slender neck opening into a trefoil mouth, surmounted by a short upright neck, the tall domed cover
a rope-twist handle of two distinct strands arching from the formed as two layers of pendent petals and topped by a
mouth to the shoulder, all beneath splashed straw, green foliate finial enclosing a bud-form knop, covered overall in a
and amber glazes, stopping unevenly below the shoulders to pale olive-green glaze suffused with craquelure (2)
reveal the grayish-beige body Height 10¼ in., 26 cm
Height 6¼ in., 15.9 cm
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
Walter Hochstadter, New York.
Japanese Collection. Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York,
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo. no. 1941:3 (purchased through the Charles Clifton Fund in
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
1941).
⊖ $ 8,000-12,000
LITERATURE
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese
唐 三彩執壺 Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from
Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, 1979, p. 107.
來源：
日本收藏 $ 6,000-8,000
繭山龍泉堂，東京
千秋庭，東京 北宋 龍泉窰青釉蓮瓣紋五管瓶
來源：
Walter Hochstadter，紐約
奧爾布賴特-諾克斯美術館收藏，水牛城，紐約，編
號1941:3（1941年以 Charles Clifton 基金購得）
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Steven A. Nash、Katy Kline、Charlotta Kotik 及 Emese
Wood，《Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculp-
ture from Antiquity to 1942》，水牛城，1979年，頁107
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