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A MASSIVE STRAW-GLAZED ‘DRAGON-HANDLED’ AMPHORA For a smaller example with similar handles, dated to the 7th century,
Tang dynasty, Xing or Gongxian kilns see J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Early Chinese White Wares, The
Of extremely large size, the elegant rounded oviform body set below Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection,, New York, September-October,
a tall waisted neck with a cup-shaped mouth, two dragon-form 2015, no. 12. The authors cite a similar stoneware amphora with
strapwork handles rising from the shoulder and biting the rim of the dragon handles discovered in a Tang dynasty tomb at the construction
mouth, all under a finely-crackled straw glaze of green hue, attractively site of Xi’an Textile Factory Hospital, now in the Xi’an Institute of
pooling at the shoulder and cup-shaped mouth. Cultural Relics Preservation, illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo
22 1/4in (56.5cm) high chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in
China), Vol. 15: Shaanxi, Beijing, 2008, p. 69, no. 69, described as
$10,000 - 15,000 “made in the Xing kilns in Hebei” but the author also notes that some
scholars regard the vase as a product of the Gongyi (formerly called
唐 刑窯/鞏縣窯 白釉雙龍耳尊 Gongxian) kilns in Henan province.

Provenance: Another example in the Musee Guimet, Paris is illustrated by Paul-
Collection of Nelson Rockefeller, prior to 1979 David, et. al, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 7:
Sotheby’s, New York, A Collecting Legacy: Property from the Musee Guimet, Paris, Tokyo, 1975.
Collection of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, 18 January 2019, lot 465

來源:
納爾遜·洛克菲勒珍藏，1979年以前
蘇富比紐約，2019年1月18日，拍品編號465

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