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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY AND CHENEY
COWLES
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A FINE SANCAI-GLAZED AMPHORA Provenance:
Tang Dynasty John Berwald, London
The high-shouldered ovoid body tapering to a narrow neck set off Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection
by a pair of dragons drinking from the amber-glazed cupped mouth,
their bodies fashioned as U-shaped handles accented with decorative 來源：
pommels, the surface brilliantly splashed with green, cream and amber 倫敦 John Berwald 古董行
glaze stopping in pools mid-way down the hard, buff body. Mary and Cheney Cowles 藏
14 1/4in (36.3cm) high
A very similar sancai-glazed amphora in the collection of the British
$8,000 - 12,000 Museum is illustrated on the museum's website, accession number
1930,0719.52, where Jessica Rawson noted: "This shape is
唐 三彩龍耳長頸瓶 reminiscent of Central Asian, Iranian and Hellenistic-Roman ceramics,
metalwork and glass. Pieces like this one were made for burial rather
than for daily use and imitate metalwork and glass rather than the
finest ceramics."

Compare also the sancai-glazed amphora with amber tone, illustrated
by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
Volume Three (I), London, 2006, p. 277, no. 1302, described as
Gongxian kilns, Henan province, 7th or 8th century A.D.

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