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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
FREDERICK A. AND SHARON L. KLINGENSTEIN
836
A VERY RARE SANCAI-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The vase raised on a fared, pedestal foot has an ovoid body
decorated with foral appliqués, and a slender trumpet neck, and
is covered overall with a fnely splashed glaze of green, ochre and
cream color.
9æ in. (24.8 cm.) high
$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Japan, 1990.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1993.
The shape of this elegant vase was inspired by metal prototypes
that were introduced from Central Asia. A very similar vase,
partly glazed in pale green, in the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, is
illustrated in Tang Pottery and Porcelain, Tokyo, 1988, p. 45, no.
40. A slightly larger sancai-glazed vase with more compressed
body, its neck incised with three bow-string bands, in the Tokyo
National Museum, is illustrated by M. Sato et. al., Ceramic Art of
The World: Sui and T’ang Dynasties, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1976, p. 59, no.
43. See, also, two similar vases with horizontal ribs encircling
the neck, one illustrated in The Arts of The T’ang Dynasty: A Loan
Exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum From
Collections in America, Los Angeles, 1957, p. 82, no. 194; the other
illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi, Han Tang taoci daquan (Chinese
Ceramics Series, Han and Tang Ceramics), Taipei, 1987-89, p. 451.
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