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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
1805
A RARE RIBBED GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY TRIPOD Boston, also without a cover, also illustrated by René-Yvon Lefebvre
CENSER AND A COVER d'Argencé, The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, 1973, p. 93, no.
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) 57; by John Ayers, Far Eastern Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
Japan, 1980, fig. 51; in the Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics
The cylindrical vessel is covered on the exterior with a brilliant green
I, Catalogue, 1988, p. 61, no. 236; in Beauty and the Selfless Mind,
glaze which pools between the concentric ribs, and the interior is
Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, 1981, Catalogue, p. 160, fig. 619; in Sekai
amber-glazed. The interior of the cover and the base are unglazed.
toji zhenshu, Shogakukan, Japan, 1976, vol. 11, fig. 50; and by Regina
6¡ in. (16.1cm.) high Krahl, The Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, Catalogue, vol. 1, p.
141, col. pl. 236.
$30,000-50,000
The form is typically glazed green with a yellow interior, although
PROVENANCE: a splashed white-glazed example is illustrated by Seiichi Mizuno,
Treasures of the Tang; Christie's Los Angeles, 4 December 1998, lot 35. Tousansai (Tang Sancai), Heibonsha, Japan, 1977, vol. 35, fig. 83.
It is very rare to find examples of this form together with a cover. The The form is derived from Han prototypes in ceramic and bronze, and
most comparable example, from the estate of the late Count Antoine it has also been suggested that the ribbed effect is an imitation of
Seilern, was sold in Christie's London, June 17, 1982, lot 28, and also turned wood. For a comparable Han bronze example, see René-Yvon
illustrated by Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Lefebvre d'Argencé, op. cit., p. 26, no. 10.
Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 39, no. 7.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.
Another, but slightly smaller and lacking its cover, from the Baur C298c55 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
Collection, Geneva, is illustrated by William Watson, Tang and Liao
Ceramics, Fribourg, 1984, p. 152, fig. 132; another in Sekai toji zenshu,
Kawadeshobo, 1961, vol. 9, fig. 91, from the Museum of Fine Arts, 唐 綠釉匲式爐及蓋