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PROPERTY FROM AN OLD ASIAN FAMILY COLLECTION
A STRAW-GLAZED DRAGON-HANDLED
AMPHORA
TANG DYNASTY
the ovoid body surmounted by a waisted neck and cupped
mouth, set with a pair of dragon-head handles, applied
overall with a translucent straw-coloured glaze
31 cm, 12¼ in.
HK$ 20,000-30,000
US$ 2,550-3,850
唐 米白釉雙龍尊

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PROPERTY FROM AN OLD ASIAN FAMILY COLLECTION
A CIZHOU PAINTED ‘PHOENIX’ JAR
JIN – YUAN DYNASTY
sturdily potted with a robust ovoid body surmounted by a
short neck, the exterior painted in black over a white slip with
two large phoenix soaring amidst cloud scrolls
h. 36 cm, 14⅛ in.

LITERATURE
Yutaka Mino, Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven
Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares 960 -
1600 A.D, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980,
206, fig. 252.
HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,500-38,300

金至元 磁州白地黑彩鳳凰紋罐
出版：
蓑豊，《Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven
Centuries in Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-
1600 A.D》，印第安納波利斯美術館，印第安納波利
斯，1981年，頁206，圖版252
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A closely related Cizhou jar painted and incised with birds,
dated as Jin / Yuan, sold in our New York rooms, 11th
September 2019, lot 508, and another from the Manno Art
museum is illustrated in Toji Taikei, Jishuyo, vol. 39, Gakuji
Hasebe, Heibonsha, 1974, no. 69.

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