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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF FREDERICK A. AND SHARON L. KLINGENSTEIN
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A VERY RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY
GOOSE-FORM VESSEL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
LITERATURE
The vessel is very fnely modeled as a plump goose, the body covered in a rich Eskenazi Ltd., Ceramic sculpture from Han and Tang China, New York, 1997,
amber glaze, the wings and tail feathers covered in a combination of green, p. 42, no. 13.
amber and cream glazes, the head with a green crest and amber beak, the
back with a wide circular aperture, and the body and neck with A very similar sancai-glazed goose-form vessel, but with less detail on
realistically-modeled feathers. the neck, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated in R.
L. d’Argence, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San
13æ in. (35 cm.) long
Francisco, 1967, pl. XXVb and on the front cover. Another similar goose-form
vessel, partially glazed in blue, in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated
$120,000-180,000
in Special Exhibition Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1994, p. 89, fg. 126. See, also,
a smaller example found in Xin’an county, Henan province, and now in the
PROVENANCE Henan Provincial Museum, illustrated by W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics,
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1997. London, 1984, p. 44, fg. 23.
唐 三彩鴨形器
EXHIBITED
New York, Eskenazi Ltd., Ceramic sculpture from Han and Tang China,
19-26 March 1997.

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