拍品 465
  • 465

A LARGE CHINESE STRAW-GLAZED DRAGON-HANDLED AMPHORA, TANG DYNASTY |

估價
20,000 - 30,000 USD
招標截止

描述

  • height 22 1/4 in.; 56.5 cm
the baluster-form body sweeping upward to a generous shoulder supporting a trumpet neck with a cupped mouth, a pair of arched handles flanking the neck and meeting at the rim in sculpted dragon-head terminals, the lengths of the handles studded with carved bosses, covered overall in a translucent straw-colored glaze suffused with craquelure and draining irregularly at the lower body

來源

Collection of Nelson Rockefeller, prior to 1979

Condition

The vase is in overall good condition with only minor expected wear commensurate with age and burial, including small chips to the foot and handles, scattered small losses to the glaze with associated staining to the exposed body (particularly to one side of the vessel), and minor surface abrasion. The base inscribed in black ink with later-added notations in Chinese and English.
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