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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A RARE BLUE, AMBER AND STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY A RARE SANCAI AND BLUE-GLAZED POTTERY TRIPOD
PILLOW OFFERING DISH
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The pillow is of rectangular shape, with the shallow concave top The dish is crisply impressed in the center with a goose in flight, within
impressed with a design of a pair of mandarin ducks standing on a lotus a stylized design of radiating lotus on a wax-resist mottled ground
blossom and holding a lotus spray between their beaks amidst flowers below the green-glazed rim.
and all against a blue-glazed background. The sides are mottled with 11¡ in. (29 cm.) diam.
wax-resist against an amber and straw glaze.
4√ in. (12.4 cm.) wide, base $40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
$20,000-30,000
Treasures of the Tang; Christie's Los Angeles, 4 December 1998, lot 41.
PROVENANCE:
Treasures of the Tang; Christie's Los Angeles, 4 December 1998, lot 12.
A number of sancai dishes of the same design, decorated with geese
An almost identical pillow from the Luoyang Museum of Cultural against a resist-decorated ground, can be found in major museum
Relics is illustrated in Collection of Masterpieces of Chinese Cultural collections, including one in the Tokyo National Museum Collection,
Relics - Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 131, fig. 457. A second is illustrated in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum -
illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha, Japan, 1982, vol. 1, fig. 39, Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1965, pl. 100; another in the Idemitsu
from the Tokyo National Museum and in the Catalogue of the Tokyo Collection, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection,
National Museum, Ceramics, vol. I, p. 68, no. 265. The same pattern Tokyo, 1987, no. 33; one exhibited in the Luoyang Museum and the
on a green ground is illustrated by Seiichi Mizuno, Tousansai (Tang Liaoning Provincial Museum in 1989, and illustrated in Da Sancai
Sancai), Heibonsha, Japan, 1977, vol. 35, col. pl. 21. (Three-Colour Ware), p. 59, no. 46; one from the collection of Dr.
Gustaf Lindberg, exhibited in Venice in 1954, Arte Cinese, Catalogue,
The result of Oxford Thermoluminescence test no. C97f84 is no. 326; and one from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated
consistent with the dating of this lot. by Margaret Medley, T'ang Pottery & Porcelain, London, 1981, pl. 32,
where the author notes on p. 41 that "it is almost certainly silver with
traced decoration that is the source for the impressed designs on
唐 三彩鴛鴦紋枕 the offering-trays, dishes and wrist rests." Another example sold at
Christie's Hong Kong, Classical Chinese Art from the Sui to the Song
Dynasties, 1 June 2016, lot 3105.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.
C298a33 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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