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PROPERTY FROM AN OLD HONG KONG COLLECTION
唐 三彩蓮花紋盤
AN IMPRESSIVE SANCAI ‘LOTUS’ DISH
TANG DYNASTY 來源：
K.M. Semon 收藏
the rounded sides supported on a flat base, impressed in the Eugene Bernat 伉儷收藏
centre with a stylised lotus, the central pod encircled by star-
shaped petals with curled edges, all in green, chestnut and 紐約蘇富比1980年11月7日，編號58
straw glazes reserved on a dappled ground, encircled around 葉義醫生收藏
the well by five large semi-circular petals, the exterior and base 香港蘇富比1984年11月19日，編號140
unglazed 趙從衍（1912-1999年）收藏
23.6 cm, 9¼ in.
出版：
PROVENANCE
Warren E. Cox，《The Book of Pottery and Porcelain》，
Collection of K.M. Semon.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat. 卷1，紐約，1945年，圖版264
Sotheby’s New York, 7th November 1980, lot 58.
Collection of Dr. Ip Yee.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19th November 1984, lot 140.
Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999).
LITERATURE
Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New
York, 1945, pl. 264.

HK$ 60,000-100,000
US$ 7,700-12,800

Basins of this pattern are illustrated in Toji Taikei [Ceramic
Great Series], vol. 35, Tokyo, 1974, pls 58 and 59; and one
partly glazed in blue from the Cunliffe collection is illustrated
in the Matsuoka Collection Catalogue, Tokyo, 1983, cat. no. 13,
sold in our London rooms, 1st April 1974, lot 29; and another
similar basin illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo,
1976, pl. 284.

Other dishes impressed with the same medallion but with
different glazes are illustrated in The Art of the T’ang Potter,
London, 1960, pl. XVII, in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and
in Three Colour Glaze Pottery of the T’ang Dynasty, vol. II, Hong
Kong, 1977, pl. 89, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art;
and one with a different central medallion but similar border in
Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1952, pl. 32, from
the Calmann Collection.

An unglazed fragment from a bowl of this form, impressed with
the same central motif, was included in the O.C.S. Exhibition
of the Kiln Sites of Ancient China, London, 1980, cat. no. 372,
from the kiln site at Gongxian, Henan, the only kiln producing
sancai wares of the Tang dynasty discovered up to that time.

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