A PAIR OF GLAZED STONEWARE AMPHORA

TANG DYNASTY

细节

A PAIR OF GLAZED STONEWARE AMPHORA
Tang Dynasty
Each with tapering ovoid body surmounted by a waisted neck encircled by a pair of bowstring bands, the pair of tall double-strap handles rising from the rounded shoulder to terminate in dragon heads, their jaws clamped onto the rolled rim of the cup-shaped mouth, covered with a finely crackled transparent glaze of grayish-olive tone falling to the flat base
21in. (54.6cm.) high

拍品专文

Amphora of this size are comparatively rare. Compare two similar examples of comparable size included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, March 14 - April 27, 1952, Catalogue, p. 63, nos. 85 - 86

For smaller similar examples, see the Catalogue for the exhibition, Chinese Art, Berlin, January 12 - April 2, 1929, no. 385, and the National Gallery of Victoria illustrated in An Album of Chinese Art, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 90-91

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 866g33 is consistent with the dating of this lot