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A STRAW-GLAZED POTTERY AMPHORA
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The tall neck with four rings is fanked by a pair of dragon-
head handles joining the baluster body to the everted rim,
the shoulder with sprigged decoration, all under a thin, pale
ivory glaze.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE
Frank Caro, New York, 13 February 1959.
唐 白釉雙龍耳瓶

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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY JAR AND A COVER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The jar of ovoid form is splash-glazed on the rounded
shoulder in green, ochre and cream glazes on a white slip
that falls irregularly below the shoulder, the lower body and
fat base exposing the pale pinkish-buf ware. The similarly
glazed cover has a bud fnial. similarly glazed.
11Ω in. (29.2 cm.) high
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE
Nagatani, Chicago, 1963.
For a very similar sancai-glazed jar and cover, see Eskenazi,
Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1974, no. 13; see,
also F. Koyma, Heibonsha toki-zenshu, 1957, pl. 26, for a
similar jar without a cover.
唐 三彩蓋罐

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