A Rare large sancai-glazed charger Liao dynasty

robustly potted, the central well freely carved with a peony encircled by fleshy green leaves and an attendant bud, the combed petals of the flower dressed in brown and all reserved against a straw-glazed ground with pale green dapples, bordered on the cavetto by carved chrysanthemum petals radiating from the center, below an everted rim with six scrawled patches, covered overall with a bright green glaze

Although an almost identical unpublished charger can be found in an Important Private American Collection, it is rare to find sancai glazed chargers of this quality and size.  A related charger with a sgraffiato green-glazed lotus and fish on a white slip ground in the Tongliao City Museum was illustrated in Hsueh-man Shen, ed., Gilded Splendor,  Asia Society, New York, 2006, cat. no. 108.

Smaller wares of this type include a jar in the Fogg Museum in Harvard University decorated with carved white flowers and green leaves reserved on a brown ground, illustrated in Tsugio Mikami, Ceramic Art of the World,  vol. 13, Tokyo, no. 132.