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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION

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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED OVOID EWER

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

The ewer is covered overall in a glaze of milky-white
tone falling onto the top of the spreading pedestal
foot but not covering the rounded rim to expose the
white body.
11º in. (28.6 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

HK$400,000-600,000
US$52,000-78,000

PROVENANCE

Acquired by the previous owner in 1984
Sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006,
lot 200

The shape and decoration on this vessel is closely
related to imported metalwork and leather bottles from
the Silk Road, while the leaf decoration at the base of
the ornamental seam is Hellenistic in origin. Similar
examples of this rare form include one illustrated in
Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth: Chinese Treasures
of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1992, p. 58, fig.
25; and the one illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years,
vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 81, no. 212. Compare also a similar
ewer of smaller size (23.5 cm. high) sold at Christie’s
New York, 18-19 Septemebr 2014, lot 703.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no. P106u25 (10 July 2006) is
consistent with the dating of this lot.

唐 白釉人面貼塑胡瓶

來源
前藏家入藏於 1984 年
紐約佳士得，2006 年 9 月 19 日，拍品 200 號

胡瓶是經絲綢之路傳入我國的西域金銀器器形。據中日學
者研究，胡瓶可分為粟特式和波斯薩珊式兩種。本品即為
典型的粟特式胡瓶。大唐盛世，中西交融，粟特人以善於
經商而聞名，在唐朝的大都市多有定居，因而將他們民族
的器物帶到中原。粟特銀制胡瓶的例子可參照內蒙古敖漢
旗李家營子發現的一例，發表於《考古》，1978 年第 2 期，
117 至 118 頁。兩相比照本件白瓷壺瓶忠實的複製了銀器
的形制，特別是柄和口沿相接處的人首堆塑，表現的惟妙
惟肖。

此器經牛津熱釋光測年法檢測（測試編號 P106u25；2006
年 7 月 10 日），證實與本圖錄之定年符合。

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