Lot 201. A Very Rare and Finely Potted Blue-Glazed Ewer, Tang Dynasty; 21.5cm., 8 1/2 in. Estimate 30,000 - 50,000 GBP. Lot sold 109,250 GBP. Photo Sotheby's

the elegant pear-shaped body rising from a short spreading foot to a trumpet neck and everted flat rim, the shoulder set to one side with a strap handle and to the other with a short cylindrical spout, covered overall in a rich cobalt-blue glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the pale buff body

Provenance: Collection of C.T. Loo.
Collection of Dott. Gian Vincenzo Soro.
Sotheby's London, 4th November 1969, Lot 49.
John Sparks, London.

Exhibited: La Découverte de l'Asia, Hommage à René Grousset, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 1954, cat. no. 487.

Literature: Mario Prodan, The Art of the Tang Potter, London, 1961, col.pl. XXXII.