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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
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A SANCAI-GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The rounded body is raised on three animal-claw feet and incised with double lines at the shoulder, all
beneath a creamy glaze splashed with ochre, yellow and green and dripping unevenly below the ochre-
glazed waisted neck and everted rim. The interior is covered in a thin glaze of creamy-yellow color.
7º in. (18.4 cm.) diam.
$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE
Mathias Komor, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections, by 1962.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent from within the family.
EXHIBITED
New York, Columbia University, Lowe Memorial Library, The Columbia University Exhibition of 3000 Years
of the Ceramic Art and Ancient Sculpture of China from the Sackler Collections, 11 November 1962 - 18
January 1963.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
1987.
唐 三彩三足爐
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