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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE This charming bowl represents one of the most A closely related basin, from the collections
PRIVATE COLLECTION successful and proli c designs on Tang dynasty of Eugene Bernat and Dr. Ip Yee, sold in these
wares, with many variations in both color rooms, 7th November 1980, lot 58, and again in
A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY combination and execution known. The oral our Hong Kong rooms, 19th November 1984, lot
BASIN rosette formed of eight petal-shaped lappets, 140; one with blue glaze instead of green was
TANG DYNASTY which was impressed on the clay body when it included in Chūgoku Tōji Meijin Ten [Exhibition of
was still damp, was probably inspired by silver famous pieces of Chinese pottery and porcelain],
with deep sides rising from a at base, impressed ware with traced decoration although the motif Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1983, cat. no.
at the center with a large stylized lotus, the was well known also in other media, such as 13; and another from the Lord Cunli e collection,
central pod issuing overlapping petals, all in textile. Furthermore, the white spots around the sold in our London rooms, 1st-2nd April 1974,
green, amber and straw glaze and reserved on rosette on this piece are reminiscent of the ring- lot 29.
wax-resist dappled amber-glazed ground, the punched ground on contemporary metalware.
sides with bold green, amber and straw-glazed See, for example, a silver box and cover, cast Compare also basins with a similar central motifs,
chevron pattern, the exterior with a lustrous on one side with a six-pointed rosette with a but lacking the white spots on the ochre ground,
amber glaze stopping unevenly above the base further six petals, unearthed in Hejiacun, Xi’an, such as one in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
to reveal the pinkish bu ware body, Japanese and included in the exhibition Dai Tō Chō-an London, illustrated in Mario Prodan, The Art of the
wood box (3) Ten [Exhibition of Chang’an the capital of Tang T’ang Pottery, London, 1960, col. pl. XVII; another
Diameter 9¾ in., 24.7 cm Dynasty], Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto, 1994, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
cat. no. 56. Los Angeles, published in Three Colour Glaze
PROVENANCE Pottery of the T’ang Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1977,
vol. II, pl. 89; and a third from the collection of J.
Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo. Spaulding, sold in these rooms, 23rd-24th May
1974, lot 272.
LITERATURE

Sekai Toji Zenshu 9 Zui To Hen / Collection of
World’s Ceramics, vol 9, Tokyo, 1961, pl. 84.
Seiichi Mizuno, Toki Zenshu 25 To Sansai
[Complete Works of Ceramics 25; Tang Sancai],
vol 25, Tokyo, 1965, pl. 34.
Mayuyama. Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976,
pl. 284.
Seiichi Mizuno, Toji taikei:To sansai [Tang
Sancai], vol. 35. Tokyo, 1977, pls 58 and 59.

$ 80,000-120,000

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1961 84

1965 34 25
284 1 1976 35

1977 58 59

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