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           PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CHAO SZE KWONG GEORGE
           A MARBLED SANCAI PILLOW
           TANG DYNASTY
           decorated to the top with floral roundels and applied with a
           transparent russet-coloured glaze, the unglazed base revealing
           a reddish-burned earthenware body
           12.5 cm, 4⅞ in.
           PROVENANCE
           Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), and thence by descent in
           the family.
           HK$ 30,000-50,000
           US$ 3,850-6,400
           Compare a similar marbled porcelain pillow of the Tang
           dynasty, unearthed in 1975 at Gaolong Wangcha Gully in
           Yanshi, now preserved in the collection of Yanshi Shangcheng
           Museum, Henan province, illustrated on the Henan Museum
           website.
           唐   三彩花卉紋枕
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           來源:
           趙從衍(1912-1999年)收藏,此後家族傳承





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                                                                      PROPERTY FROM AN OLD HONG KONG COLLECTION
                                                                      A SMALL CARVED DINGYAO ‘FISH’ BOWL
                                                                      NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
                                                                      the interior deftly incised and carved with a pair of fish
                                                                      swimming amid waves, the exterior encircled by a double-line
                                                                      border around the midsection, applied overall with an ivory-
                                                                      tinged glaze
                                                                      11.7 cm, 4⅝ in.
                                                                      PROVENANCE
                                                                      Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999).
                                                                      HK$ 120,000-150,000
                                                                      US$ 15,400-19,200
                                                                      See a larger bowl with similar incised and carved ‘twin fish’
                                                                      decoration in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The
                                                                      Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
                                                                      Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 56.

                                                                      北宋   定窰白釉刻雙魚紋小盌
                                                                      來源:
                                                                      趙從衍(1912-1999年)收藏








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