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AN AMBER-GLAZED MARBLED POTTERY A BROWN-DECORATED WHITE-GLAZED BOX 唐 / 五代 褐斑白釉蓋盒
TRIPOD JAR, TANG DYNASTY AND COVER, TANG / FIVE DYNASTIES
Diameter 2⅜ in., 6 cm Japanese wood box (4) 來源：
Diameter 4⅞ in., 12.3 cm
PROVENANCE 日本私人收藏
Hong Kong Private Collection, acquired in the 1990s. PROVENANCE
Japanese Private Collection. 展覽：
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000 《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022
EXHIBITED 年，編號22
唐 絞胎三足爐 Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022,
cat. no. 22.
來源： For boxes of this form, similarly decorated in a creamy
香港私人收藏，得於1990年代 ivory glaze, but with a moth to the center of the cover, see
489 one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Jin and Tang
Dynasties vol. 31, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 92; a second,
illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (II), London, 1994, pl. 1393;
a third, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World’s Great
490 Collections, Musée Guimet, Paris vol. 8, 1976, monochrome
pl. 24; and lastly, one incised on the cover with a leaf is
AN AMBER-GLAZED MARBLED BOX AND illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl
COVER, TANG DYNASTY Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 253.
Japanese wood box (4) ⊖ $ 3,000-5,000
Diameter 2⅛ in., 5.5 cm
PROVENANCE
American Private Collection.
Chase Gilmore Galleries, Chicago, September 1976.
EXHIBITED
Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022,
cat. no. 12.
The present box and cover is charmingly glazed in a rich
amber color of marbled effect. Perhaps intentionally designed,
there is an abstract flowerhead in the center of the top and
bottom, pointing to the potter’s skillful manipulation of the
technique. For a similarly decorated box and cover, see
one illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Meiyintang Collection, vol. 3 (I), London, 2006, pl. 1243, where
the author notes how the box follows the shape of its silver
prototype with its slightly domed top and bottom as well as
how it is set off from the straight sides by a groove. See also a
similarly glazed cup and tripod saucer as well as a bowl, in the
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Palace Museum, Beijing (accession nos 新00059687 and 新
00082701); and a pillow included in Chinese Ceramics, Han to
Song, Marchant, London, 2018, cat. no. 7.
⊖ $ 7,000-9,000

唐 琥珀釉絞胎蓋盒

來源：
美國私人收藏
Chase Gilmore Galleries，芝加哥，1976年9月

展覽：
《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022
年，編號12

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