Edward Luper
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Property from the Cunliffe Collection of Chinese Art
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Lot 24
A rare blue and sancai-glazed pottery jar Tang Dynasty
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12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £45,000 inc. premium
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A rare blue and sancai-glazed pottery jar
Tang Dynasty
Of globular form, supported on a short spreading foot and surmounted by a short waisted neck and rolled lip, boldly decorated around the exterior with wide olive-green bands centred by rows of resist dots bordered in amber and blue and separated by narrow vertical rows of resist-glazed small white dots, the glaze topping above the foot in an undulating line to reveal the pinkish-buff body, the neck and rim amber-glazed. 18.3cm (8 1/8in) high
Of globular form, supported on a short spreading foot and surmounted by a short waisted neck and rolled lip, boldly decorated around the exterior with wide olive-green bands centred by rows of resist dots bordered in amber and blue and separated by narrow vertical rows of resist-glazed small white dots, the glaze topping above the foot in an undulating line to reveal the pinkish-buff body, the neck and rim amber-glazed. 18.3cm (8 1/8in) high
Footnotes
唐 藍釉三彩罐
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Cunliffe Collection, no.PT23, and thence by descent
Exhibited and Published:
Oriental Ceramic Society, Wares of the T'ang Dynasty, London, 27 April - 8 June, no.26
Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, London, 25 February - 30 March 1955, no.98
來源： 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任，Rolf Cunliffe勳爵 (1899-1963)
Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號PT13，並由後人保存迄今
展覽及出版：
1949年4月27日至6月8日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「Wares of the T'ang Dynasty(唐代器物)」特展展出，展品26號
1955年2月25日至3月30日於倫敦東方陶瓷學會「The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty(唐代藝術)」特展展出，展品98號
Compare with a very similar Tang dynasty sancai-glazed jar illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1996, pp.222-223, pl.205. Another is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.31.
Saleroom notices
The dating of this lot is consistent with Oxford Authentication Ltd thermoluminescence report no.C116d23, dated 23 March 2016.
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