Lot 48
  • 48

A GREEN-GLAZED STONEWARE TAZZA HAN / SIX DYNASTIES

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • ceramic
with shallow rounded sides raised on a splayed stem, the center of the interior with an impressed and incised with a central foliate design, covered overall with an olive-green glaze pooling darker on the interior and trailing down the stem

Condition

There is a large piece of kiln grit to the interior, and a chip to the rim. There are two test holes to the base.
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Catalogue Note

See a tazza of related form but with a galleried rim, excavated in 2003 from a Sui dynasty tomb at Xiaomintun, Anyang City, and now in the Henan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, published in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji / Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2008, vol. 12, pl. 44; and another in the Capital Museum, Beijing, published in Selections from the Capital Museum Collection, Beijing, 1991, cat. no. 6.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford authentication Ltd., no. P101z42.