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A circular bluish white glazed ‘elephant’ ink stone, Tang dynasty | 唐 白釉象足陶圓硯

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Property from the Collection of Tove and Karl Emil Strømstad, Norway

A circular bluish white glazed ‘elephant’ ink stone

Tang dynasty


Diameter 12 cm, 4¾ in.

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Collection de Tove et Karl Emil Strømstad, Norvège

Pierre à encre circulaire à pieds d'éléphant en grès émaillé, dynastie Tang

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挪威Strømstad伉儷收藏

唐 白釉象足陶圓硯

Grays Antique Centre, The Asian Gallery, London, June 1996.

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Grays Antique Centre,亞洲藝廊,倫敦,1996年6月

The World in Monochromes, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 2009, cat. no. 25.

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《The World in Monochromes》,東方陶瓷學會,倫敦,2009年,編號25

Compare two similar examples unearthed in Anyang, Henan province, and now in the Museum of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, published online (acc.no. R023507, R023495); a related example illustrated in Qianfeng cui se: Yueyao te zhan / Special Exhibition of Early Chinese Greenware, Taipei, 1996, pl. 98. Another similar greenware example in the Minnesota Institute of Art (acc. no. 97.46.2) is on view in gallery 217.