A sancai-glazed pottery ewer, Tang dynasty | 唐 三彩執壺

A sancai-glazed pottery ewer

Tang dynasty 

 唐 三彩執壺

finely potted, the pear-shaped body rising from a slightly splayed foot to a slender neck opening into a trefoil mouth, a rope-twist handle of two distinct strands arching from the mouth to the shoulder, all beneath splashed straw, green and amber glazes, stopping unevenly below the shoulders to reveal the grayish-beige body 

Height 6¼ in., 15.9 cm