A sancai-glazed pottery jar and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907)
Lot 418. A sancai-glazed pottery jar and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907); 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high. Estimate USD 25,000 - USD 35,000. Price realised USD 25,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2008
The wide ovoid body liberally splashed with bright amber, cream and green glaze that covers the short neck and continues over the out-turned rim, all on a white slip that falls irregularly towards the flat base exposing the pale pinkish-buff ware, the cover with spots of cream and green glaze reserved on an amber ground beneath the compressed globular pointed finial, box.
Provenance: Acquired in 1995.
Note: The successful application of the splashed glaze on this jar and cover is simiar to that seen on a jar and cover illustrated in Sekai toji zenzhu, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1955, pl. 67.
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test number P108u76 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 17 September 2008, New York, Rockefeller Plaza