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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED CANDLE The present elegantly modeled candle holder amber-glazed, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing
STAND is inspired by a bronze prototype. The wealth and illustrated in The Complete Collection of
TANG DYNASTY and sophistication enjoyed by the Tang elite Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain
encouraged the production of numerous luxury of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, 1996, Hong
the cylindrical candle holder centering a circular wares, among which were sophisticated and Kong, pl. 207. A pair of the same form and
drip pan raised on a ridged columnar support attractive lamps. Oil lamps had long been decoration was sold at Christie’s New York,
above a larger drip pan, all raised on a flared used but there are also numerous references 20th September 2005, lot 194. For a bronze
foot, covered overall with amber, green and to beeswax candles which would have been example of this form see the lamp attributed
cream glaze in vertically-oriented splashes inserted into the present stand. to the Six Dynasties, sold in these rooms 6th
Height 10⅝ in., 27 cm December 1983, lot 21.
A similar glazed candlestick in the Gulbenkian
PROVENANCE Museum of Oriental Art, University of Durham, $ 20,000-30,000
and formerly in the Macdonald Collection,
Collection of Russell M. Tyson (1867-1963) is illustrated by William Watson, Tang and
Gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago in Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, pl. 42. Another
1951 (acc. no. 1951-0306). 唐 三彩燭臺
stand of the same form but primarily blue and
來源
Russell M. Tyson (1867-1963) 收藏
1951年贈予芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，
館藏編號1951-0306

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