A RARE AND IMPORTANT SANCAI AND BLUE-GLAZED POTTERY GOOSE-FORM VESSEL TANG DYNASTY

naturalistically modeled, the recumbent bird with webbed feet tucked beneath the body, the upright alert head over a long curved neck, the layered, tufted feathers of the broad wings tapering towards the incurved tail glazed in bands of blue, amber and cream, the plumage of the plump rounded chest and pinfeathers of sinuous neck delineated with rows of small raised spirals and applied with a lustrous amber glaze, the interior hollowed with an oval opening at its back, supported on a conforming rectangular unglazed base

Sotheby's New York, 15th June, 1983, lot 157.
Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Sotheby's London, 9th June 2004, lot 72.

Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1988, cat. no. 37.

There is restoration to two breaks to the neck. A small, approximately 3/4 inch section, at the tip of the beak with a restored chip and an approximately 1 inch long area of a wing feather with a touch-up to the blue glaze.
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