Chinese Ceramics: A Private Collection
A sancai-glazed pottery 'fish' vase, Tang - Liao dynasty | 唐至遼 三彩魚紋雙繫壺
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September 22, 04:06 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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A sancai-glazed pottery 'fish' vase
Tang - Liao dynasty
唐至遼 三彩魚紋雙繫壺
the elongated ovoid body resting on a spreading foot and rising to a rounded swelling shoulder, capped by a tapering cylindrical neck, the narrow sides applied with a pair of ridged flanges evoking dorsal fins terminating in a pair of loop handles at the shoulder, the broad sides each incised with an upright fish, raised bosses for the eyes, all under cream, apple-green and amber glazes, the recessed base unglazed revealing the buff clay body
Height 9¾ in., 24.8 cm
Acquired prior to 2000.
來源
得於2000年之前
Compare a similar 'fish' vessel, though lacking the loop handles and with straight flanges, attributed to the Liao dynasty and published in Yuzo Sigimura, Toji takei: Ryō no toji [Liao Dynasty Ceramics], vol. 40. Tokyo, 1974, pl. 10. See also a related Tang dynasty sancai-glazed 'twin fish' vase in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (acc. no. C.88-1939).
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