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246 Bracket-lobed dishes such as this one were constructed over moulds
A sancai ‘lotus-bloom’ lobed oval dish with decorative motifs incorporated on it. Several related examples
Liao Dynasty include: one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
The shallow dish with a flat amber-glazed rim decorated with a floral Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song
scroll, with three lotus blooms on the interior painted in dark green Dynasty I, Hong Kong, 1996, p.281, no.255; another decorated on
and amber on a straw-coloured incised ground, the unglazed base the centre with a leafy lotus bloom in the Tokyo National Museum,
exposing the grey-buff ware. illustrated by Margaret Medley, Tang Pottery and Porcelain, London,
26cm wide 1981, p.138, no.137; and a pair illustrated in Song Ceramics from the
Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp.404-407, no.184 and 185.
HK$70,000 - 100,000
US$9,000 - 13,000 盤呈海棠式，八曲形，平底，淺身，折沿，寬平邊。盤口沿膜印卷草

遼 三彩印花海棠式長盤 紋，盤心飾水波紋，中心有三多盛開蓮花，以黃、白、綠三色釉彩裝

provenance 來源: 飾，極為珍貴。
John Sparks Ltd. (affixed label)
三彩器中水波紋較為少見，北京故宮博物院藏有一件遼代三彩盤，

與本盤如出一轍，見李輝柄編，《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：兩

宋瓷器（上）》，香港，2001年，頁281，圖版255。東京國立博
物館亦藏一例可資參考，見Margaret Medley，《Tang Pottery and
Porcelain》，倫敦，1981年，頁138，圖137。

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