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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED JAPANESE PRIVATE 唐 三彩貼花鳳首壺
COLLECTION
A SANCAI-GLAZED PHOENIX-HEADED EWER
TANG DYNASTY
the slender pear-shaped body rising from a tall splayed foot to
a phoenix-head spout with a pearl within its beak, moulded on
each side with an oval foliate panel, one containing a dancing
phoenix with outstretched wings, the reverse with a Sasanian
archer on horseback, applied to the side with an unglazed
arched handle, covered with cream, green and ochre glazes,
Japanese wood box
28.8 cm, 11¼ in.
HK$ 1,000,000-1,500,000
US$ 130,000-194,000

Modelled in the form of a Sasanian metal ewer and applied 本品形仿薩珊王朝金屬執壺，綴古希臘風格紋飾，反
with Hellenistic-inspired decoration, this ewer embodies the 映早唐與外邦貿易及文化交流成果，頗具典型早唐藝
commercial and cultural exchange that characterises the art 術風範。學者 Margaret Medley 論述，隋煬帝與波斯薩
of the early Tang dynasty. Margaret Medley in Metalwork and
Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972 (p. 4), discusses the far- 珊王朝（公元224-651年）建交，促成兩國互呈珍品，
reaching effect on Tang potters of the opening of diplomatic 波斯藝匠更因而遠赴唐都長安（今陝西省西安），詳
relations between the Chinese Emperor Yangdi of the Sui 見《Metalwork and Chinese Ceramics》，倫敦，1972年，
dynasty (581-618) and the Sasanian Persian Empire (224- 頁4。如此交流，對後世影響深遠，唐代工匠亦受其啟
651), which led to the exchange of tributary gifts as well as the 發。
arrival of Persian craftsmen at the Imperial court in the Tang
capital Chang’an (today’s Xi’an, Shaanxi).
相類鳳首壺，可參考尤莫弗普勒斯舊藏例，現存倫敦
Compare a similar ewer from the George Eumorfopoulos 大英博物館，圖見 R.L. Hobson，《The Eumorfopoulos
collection, now in the British Museum, London (no.
1936,1012.1), illustrated in R.L. Hobson, The Eumorfopoulos Collection》，卷1，倫敦，1925年，彩圖L，圖389。
Collection, vol. 1, London, 1925, col. pl. L, fig. 389.

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