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238 The technique to achieve the marbled effect was known as jiao tai,
A fine and rare miniature marble-glazed globular ‘mixed clay’ or jiao you, ‘mixed glaze.’ This marbled aesthetic became
tripod jar and cover popular in the Tang Dynasty and was achieved either by layering or
Tang Dynasty folding together two contrasting layers of different coloured clay when
The globular body supported on three feet rising to an everted mouth making the vessel, or by using two different coloured slips on the
rim, the stepped cover with a small knop, covered overall with a surface, which is then covered with a transparent pale yellow or amber
marbled straw and dark brown glaze. glaze.
6cm wide (2).
It is extremely rare to find marbled vessels in shapes other than bowls
HK$280,000 - 350,000 and dishes. A Tang Dynasty marbled jar of roughly the same form,
US$36,000 - 45,000 but with more prominent paw-shaped legs, in the Palace Museum
Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in Ceramics Gallery of the Palace
唐 絞釉三獸足小蓋罐 Museum, Part 1, Beijing, 2008, p.160, no.98 and also by Anthony du
Boulay, Chinese Porcelain, London, 1973, p.14, no.12.

罐口外卷，圓腹，下承以三獸足，配圓尖鈕蓋。蓋及罐身均以兩種色

釉絞出如羽毛狀花紋，可愛別致。

絞胎初於唐代，是借鑑於漆器犀毗工藝而成。其他絞胎例子，可參考

北京故宮博物院藏絞胎三足罐，見故宮博物院編，《故宮陶瓷館．上

編》，北京，2008年，頁 160，圖版98，以及 Anthony du Boulay，
《Chinese Porcelain》，倫敦，1973年，頁14，圖12。該件比本拍品
略大，但沒有蓋。據文章提及，三足罐是河南鞏義窯常見之器形，相

信故宮藏品仍鞏義 窯製品。

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