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Ceramics

Property from Various Owners
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A sancai glazed small pottery bowl
Tang dynasty
Of circular form, its wide curving well painted with spots of colorless glaze that separate
ribbons of cobalt blue and amber glaze, all repeating in more diffuse form on the exterior walls
and base molded with flower heads and leaves, the floor of the well also marked with the
remains of three tiny clay spurs.
4in (10cm) diameter
$10,000 - 15,000
Provenance
Bluett & Sons, London, 1972, by repute
Mr. and Mrs. F. Brodie Lodge (attached label reading Brodie & Enid Lodge M.123)
Exhibited and Published
Oriental Ceramics Society, London, Loan Exhibition of Arts of the T’ang Dynasty 25 February -
30 March 1955, cat. no. 116, listed but not illustrated; attached label from the 1955 exhibition

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