A rare small spittoon (zhadou), China, Tang dynasty. Estimate 2500/3500 €. Lot sold 2.600€. Photo Nagel

The heavily potted compressed globular body supported on a low footring, set with a small mouth and a thinly potted wide flaring rim, covered overall with a cream-colored glaze. D. 12,7 cm. Minor corossion, mouth rim with small glaze chip

Provenance: Property from the collection of Senta Wollheim, bought in Germany before 1976

Note; Wares of this type take their shape from metal wares of the Tang dynasty and functioned as spittoons. Smaller vessels of this shape were also used for tea dregs. See a ceramic zhadou, from the Ingram collection, and a silver zhadou from the Kempe collection, both illustrated in M. Vickers, From Silver to Ceramic, Oxford, 1986, pl. 47. A similar example can also be found in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum and is illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daquan, Taoci juan, Shanghai, 1993, pl. 243

NAGEL. "Asian Art". Sale 722, 06/06/2015