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Lot 48
A LARGE SANCAI GLAZED POTTERY TRIPOD DISH WITH IMPRESSED FLOWERHEAD CENTER Tang Dynasty
14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
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A LARGE SANCAI GLAZED POTTERY TRIPOD DISH WITH IMPRESSED FLOWERHEAD CENTER
Tang Dynasty
The center of the dish impressed with a large six-petaled composite flowerhead of lotus outline, with a smaller flowerhead at it's center, all surrounded by twelve detached cloud-form leafy sprays, reserved on a resist-spotted ochre ground that runs to a molded or incised line at the base of the well, and continues with a resist-spotted green ground to the rounded everted rim, the sides of the exterior under an apple-green glaze that pools attractively around the flat buff pottery base that is supported on three simple loop-form green-glazed feet.
11 3/4in (29.8cm) diam
The center of the dish impressed with a large six-petaled composite flowerhead of lotus outline, with a smaller flowerhead at it's center, all surrounded by twelve detached cloud-form leafy sprays, reserved on a resist-spotted ochre ground that runs to a molded or incised line at the base of the well, and continues with a resist-spotted green ground to the rounded everted rim, the sides of the exterior under an apple-green glaze that pools attractively around the flat buff pottery base that is supported on three simple loop-form green-glazed feet.
11 3/4in (29.8cm) diam
Footnotes
唐 三彩陶印花三圈足大盤
Provenance
Christie's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 292
Sotheby's New York, 30 March 2006, Lot 12
來源
紐約佳士得拍賣行，1999年9月16日，拍品編號16
紐約蘇富比拍賣行，2006年3月30日，拍品編號12
Sancai dishes of this size and rich design are very rare. A similar dish of larger size (38.1 cm) from the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Margaret Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, pp. 40-41, where the author notes that motifs like wax-resist dots (the backdrop to the rim, well and center of our dish), are developed out of Central Asian textile techniques such as tie-and-dye silks and fabrics with wax-stenciled resist designs, while the impressed flowerhead designs at the center were inspired by chased silver.
Compare the Sancai and blue-glazed dish with three loop-form feet illustrated in the catalog of the exhibition organized by the Nezu Institute of Arts, Tang Pottery and Porcelain, Tokyo, 1988, p. 46, no. 42, with description on p. 91, where the author cited a white glazed dish with three loop-form feet.
For another rare large sized dish very similarly decorated to this example, See Christie's Hong Kong, 6 October 2015, lot 90. Compare also to another similar dish, also covered with a green glaze on the exterior, in the Eisei Bunko Collection, Tokyo, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 55.
See also Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2023, lot 3685 for a slightly smaller dish (24cm diam); and another illustrated in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 54.
The results of the thermoluminescence testing are consistent with the suggested dating of this piece, Oxford Authentication sample No. C123p14.
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