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PROPERTY FROM THE YANGDETANG
     COLLECTION

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   A WHITE-GLAZED ‘DRAGON
   AND LION’ EWER

    TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES (618-960)

   The ewer is potted with an ovoid body rising
   to a flared neck, the handle moulded in the
   form of a crouching lion clambering towards
   the inner mouth rim, the short spout in the
   form of dragon-head, covered overall with a
   glossy clear glaze, with the exception of the
   base revealing the white body.
   7√ in. (20 cm.) high, box

   HK$150,000-200,000
   US$20,000-26,000

      Provenance:

   Yangdetang Collection, acquired before 1987

      Exhibited:

   National Museum of History, The Exhibition
   of Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, Taipei,
   1987, Catalogue, p. 27
   Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000- nen
   no seika (Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two
   Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics), Tokyo,
   1992, no. 16

  唐 / 五代  白釉龍首獅把執壺

   來源:

   養德堂珍藏,入藏於 1987 年以前

   展覽:

   國立歷史博物館,《中國八代陶瓷精
   品展》,台北,1987,圖錄 27 頁
   《中国名陶展 : 中国陶磁 2000 年の精
   華》,東京,1992 年,圖版 16 號

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