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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
1802
A RARE FINELY-MOLDED SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY The present tripod jar and cover is a particularly fine example,
GLOBULAR TRIPOD JAR AND COVER with finely-molded appliques and well-controlled splashed colors
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) in the sancai glaze. Another finely-executed jar, also with a cover,
was included in the exhibition Cina a Venezia. Dalla Dinastia Han
The rounded body is applied with crisp stellate-form rosettes
a Marco Polo in 1986, and is illustrated in the Catalogue, Milan,
alternating with pairs of elaborate scrolls, and is raised on three claw
1986, p.189, no, 99. Another jar and cover of comparable quality
feet. The ridged cover has a small pointed knop, and the censer and
is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Early Wares. Prehistoric to Tenth
cover are covered overall with an attractive splashed sancai glaze.
Century, Taipei, 1991, p. 213.
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high
A sancai-glazed pottery tripod jar with very similar molded
$50,000-70,000 floral appliques, but of smaller size (13.3 cm. high), from the
Dexinshuwu Collection, was included in The Special Exhibition
PROVENANCE:
of Tang Tri-Colour, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1995, p. 139,
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's New York, 22 March 1999, lot
and subsequently sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4 October 2016,
252.
lot 3. A sancai-glazed tripod jar and cover with similar appliques
was sold at Christie's New York, 14-15 September 2017, lot 1107;
LITERATURE:
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics I: Neolithic to Liao, Hong and a sancai-glazed tripod jar and cover without appliques, from
Kong, 1993, no. 130. the collection of Frederick A. and Sharon L. Klingenstein, was
sold as Christie's New York, 13 September 2019, lot 834.
唐 三彩貼花三足蓋罐
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence
test no. C199b20 is consistent with the dating of this lot.