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A XING GREEN SPLASH-GLAZED EWER AND

A ‘PHOENIX’ COVER

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

The ewer has an ovoid-shaped body with a raised central ridge,
supported on a tall spreading foot with a flattened knob in
between, the long neck with dish-shaped mouth is applied with
a double-strand handle, the cover is moulded as a phoenix’s head
with incised plumage, all splashed with green glaze on a white slip
ground.
16æ in. (42 cm.) high overall, box

HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000

PROVENANCE:

Collection of Masuda Takashi (1848-1938), a renowned Japanese
entrepreneur, acquired during the late Meiji to early Showa period
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1990s

A green splash-glazed ewer of similar form but with a cover in the form
of a dragon’s head was found in a Tang dynasty cargo recovered from
the Java Sea southeast of Singapore in 1998 and is now housed in the
Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore, illustrated and discussed by
Rosemary Scott,‘A Remarkable Tang Dynasty Cargo’, Transactions of
the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 67, 2002-2003, pp. 13-26. According
to the Asian Civilizations Museum, this cargo can be dated to around
AD 830s.

唐 邢窯綠彩鳳首執壺

來源：
日本實業家益田孝 (1848-1938)珍藏，入藏於明治末年/昭和
時代初
日本私人收藏，入藏於1990年代

長頸，卵腹，雙股束帶形曲柄，下承葫蘆頭式喇叭狀高圈足，
蓋作鳳首狀，通體施綠色彩斑。

1998年發現於爪哇海水域的「黑石號」沉船貨品中有一件
器形與本拍品相近的綠彩高足龍首壺，現藏於新加坡亞洲文
明博物館，見蘇玫瑰著，‘A Remarkable Tang Dynasty
Cargo’，載於《Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic
Society》，卷67，2002至2003年，13至26頁。該沉船的年
代大致可定為晚唐，公元830年左右。

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