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A WHITE-GLAZED KUNDIKA, TANG DYNASTY, 7TH/8TH CENTURY | 唐 七/八世紀 白釉净水瓶

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November 4, 07:52 PM GMT

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6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

德國私人收藏

A WHITE-GLAZED KUNDIKA

TANG DYNASTY, 7TH/8TH CENTURY

唐 七/八世紀 白釉净水瓶


the body of ovoid form rising to a slightly waisted tall neck collared by a small disk and continuing to a narrow opening, the shoulders set with an upright lobed spout with a cupped mouth, all covered with a thin transparent glaze suffused with crackles

Height 20 cm, 7⅞ in.

Acquired from Chak's Gallery, Hong Kong, 1996.
A white kundika of somewhat different proportions in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is attributed to the Gongyi kilns of Henan in Zhongguo gu ciyao daxi. Zhongguo Gongyi yao/Series of China’s Ancient Porcelain Kiln Sites. Gongyi Kiln of China, Beijing, 2011, p. 282, fig. 4.