- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Vase: bottle-shaped with ovoid body, tall slender neck with flaring lip, low spreading foot, flat bottom; three elongated spur marks on base.
Clay: fine, light buff pottery.
Glaze: transparent; streaks of runny amber, green and yellow, minutely crazed and iridescent in parts.
Decoration: none except glaze.
- Published References
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- Mizuno Seiichi. To Sansai. vol. 25, Tokyo. pl. 13.
- Chang Wanli. Tang san cai you tao [Three-Colour Glaze Pottery of the T'ang Dynasty]. 3 vols., Hong Kong. vol. 2: pl. 72.
- William Watson. Tang and Liao Ceramics. New York, 1984. fig. 65.
- Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections. 12 vols., Tokyo. vol. 10, pl. 13.
- Julia Murray. A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980. Exh. cat. Washington, 1979. cat. 19, p. 29.
- Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 64.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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