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PROPERTY FROM THE
PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION
1278
AN UNUSUAL SMALL GREEN-GLAZED
POTTERY ‘PILGRIM’S’ FLASK
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The fask, of oval section, has pierced leaf-shaped
handles on the shoulders, and is molded in high
relief on each side with a frolicking monkey holding
a bottle and a cup between two fower heads and
within a border of bosses that conforms to the
shape of the vessel, all under a thin glaze of
green color.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, cloth box

$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
In Hong Kong by the 1990s.
Christie’s New York, 19 September 2007, lot 239.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection,
New York.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no. C107f83 is
consistent with the dating of this lot.
唐 綠釉模印猴戲圖扁壺

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