A sancai-glazed pottery amphora, Tang dynasty. Estimate  120,000 — 180,000 HKD. Lot sold 150,000 HKD. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

the ovoid body rising from a spreading foot to rounded shoulders beneath a waisted neck surmounted by a cup-shaped mouth, the exterior splashed with green, ochre and straw-coloured glazes falling in streaks and stopping irregularly around the lower part of the body, the unglazed rim and foot revealing the buff-coloured body; 18.8 cm., 7 3/8  in.

Provenance: Auctioned in Sweden, 1960s.
Acquired in New York by current owner.

Notes: A closely related vase from the Victor Rienaecker and Lodge collections, included in the exhibition Wares of the T'ang Dynasty,  Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1949, cat.no. 124, was sold in these rooms, 10th December 1968, lot 84. Compare also another sancai glazed vase of this form in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 35.  

Compare also a vase from the collections of Mr and Mrs F. Brodie Lodge and Victor Rienaccker, sold in our London rooms, 10th December 1968, lot 84.

Sotheby's. Contemporary Literati: Curiosity, Hong Kong, 05 avr. 2015