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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT
AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY CENSER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The faring dish with fat, everted rim is raised
on fve molded supports, each surmounted by a
horned bird head, and the base is formed as a low
ring. The dish and molded supports are covered
with a splashed glaze of amber, dark olive-green
and cream color, and the base is amber-glazed.
6¿ in. (15.5 cm.) diam.
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE
Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.
A related censer which is raised on fve
human-form fgures is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu,
A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, ‘Early Wares:
Prehistoric to Tenth Century’, Taipei, 1991, p. 239
(top right).
唐 三彩獸蹄足爐

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AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A PAPER-CUT RESIST-DECORATED
JIZHOU ‘PHOENIX’ BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The widely fared conical bowl is decorated on the
interior in resist technique with three long-tailed
phoenixes in fight above one fower head in the
center, all reserved on a dark-brown glaze against
a variegated olive-beige ground. The exterior has
numerous pale buf spots on a blackish-brown
ground that stops unevenly above the exposed
buf stoneware foot.
6¡ in. (16.2 cm.) diam.
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE
Stephen Junkunc, III (1904-1978) Collection.
南宋 吉州窯剪紙貼花鳳紋盌

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