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A LARGE AMBER-GLAZED CANDLESTICK
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The candlestick is modelled to the upper section with a cylindrical candle
holder held in a circular drip pan raised on a ribbed stem rising from a
larger drip pan, all supported on a spreading foot and covered overall with a
translucent amber glaze.
12æ in. (32.5 cm.) high
£25,000-35,000 $33,000-46,000
€28,000-39,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired in the UK in May 1987.
A pair of candleholders of this form covered in a sancai glaze were sold at
Christie’s New York, 20 September 2005, lot 194.

Compare a similar candlestick covered with a straw glaze, illustrated by H.
Tseng and R. P. Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, 1964, pl. 62, and a further example held in the the Bufalo Museum
of Science that was included in the exhibition, The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty,
Los Angeles County Museum, 1957, no. 225.
唐 褐釉燭臺

來源: 1987年5月購自英國

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