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TWO GLAZED POTTERY DISHES A SANCAI AND BLUE GLAZED TRIPOD POTTERY VESSEL
Liao dynasty Tang dynasty
The first a deep dish with three small unglazed spur marks to the wide The compressed globular body raised on three lion-paw feet, the
well, the chestnut glaze covering the entire interior and part of the upper body with a glaze with repeating geometric pattern in blue and
underside and foot; the second a small sancai dish with lobed side amber, beneath the amber-glazed short neck and everted rim.
walls and rim, the interior with a central lotus medallion enclosed by 6 1/4in (16cm) high
peonies and lotuses on the cavetto, all against a ground impressed
with feather patterns, the exterior covered in a thin layer of pale green $3,000 - 5,000
glaze, the flat base unglazed.
8 and 5 1/2in (20.2 and 14cm) diameter (2). Provenance
Iva and Flores, December 1998
$3,000 - 5,000
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Provenance TWO QINGBAI GLAZED VESSELS
Flores & Iva, date unrecorded (the first) Northern Song dynasty, 11th/12th century
Flores & Iva, May 2000 (the second) The first a finely potted globular jar with a cover both bearing and even
blue-tinged translucent glaze; the second a warming bowl with straight
sides molded with a network of elegantly pointed leaves and covered
in and out with a pale blue-tinged glaze except for the rim which
shows traces of a former metal band, lacking a cover.
3 1/2in (8.8cm) with cover; 5 1/8in (13cm) diam (3).
$3,000 - 5,000
Provenance
Roger Keverne, London, February 2002 (the first)
Flores & Iva, December 2001 (the second)

Note:
See a similar warming bowl illustrated by Gyllensvard. Chinese
Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection. Stockholm, 1964, p. 163,
no.528.

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