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Property Formerly in the Sze Yuan Tang Collection

A rare green-splashed 'dragon' ewer, Tang dynasty

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May 15, 12:06 PM GMT

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Description

Height 18.5 cm, 7¼ in.

Sze Yuan Tang Collection.

The Splendour of Sancai. The Sze Yuan Tang Collection, Littleton and Hennessy, TEFAF, Maastricht, 2012, cat. no. 42.

While white-glazed ewers of this elaborate sculptural form are attested, it is extremely rare to find an example enrobed in green copper-oxide splashes. Compare a closely related green-splashed ewer uncovered from the famous Belitung Shipwreck (ca. 830 CE), illustrated in Shipwrecked. Tang Treasure, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2011, p. 46.


The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, C-Link Research & Development Ltd., no. 9432XA27.

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