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二 2. Blue-splashed straw glazed-ground round pouring vessel with lipped rim and cylindrical short spout, the interior cream and amber.
11.5cm wide.
籃 Tang dynasty, 618-906.
彩 Old Japanese wood fitted box.
水
注 • Formerly in a Japanese private collection.
唐 • Exhibited at the Kawaii Minichua, Tokubetsuten, Special Exhibition, MOA Museum of Art, Japan, 2005, no. 35, p. 18.
• A similar multicoloured, blue splashed pouring vessel is illustrated by Tohru Toguri in Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection,
1988, no. 23, p. 31, and three others of this form in blue, blue-splashed and green, amber and speckled straw glaze are
illustrated by Margaret Medley in An Exhibition of Tang Sancai Pottery, selected from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman,
1989, nos. 27-29, pp. 54/5.
• The result of thermoluminescence test certificate no. C113j27 Oxford Authentication Ltd. is consistent with the above dating.
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