1st Mar, 2024 10:00
The No Reserve Dragon Sale
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A SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY TEA SET, TANG DYNASTY
唐代三彩陶茶具一套
Sold for €910
including Buyer's Premium
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
China, 618-906. As part of funerary rituals, the seven cups and central jar are fixed to the circular tray having been fired together in the kiln. The glaze stops just above the short base of the tray. The emerald-green and yellow glazes are generously applied overall and are finely crackled.
Provenance: From the estate of a notable Hong Kong family, who brought a substantial collection of ceramics, porcelains, and other Chinese works of art with them when they immigrated to Canada in the 1950s. Thence by descent within the family to the last owner.
Condition: Good condition commensurate with age, with some firing irregularities and signs of weathering. Soil encrustations typical of objects buried for a prolonged period, chips, glaze drippings, pitting, and glaze recesses.
Weight: 1,168 g
Dimensions: Diameter 23.4 cm (tray), 6.3 cm (cups), 6.6 cm (jar)
Please click here to read the full description
Literature comparison:
Compare a related sancai-glazed jar, 7.6 cm in diameter, dated to the Tang dynasty, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, accession number EAX.1967. Compare a related sancai-glazed jar, 9.2 cm in diameter, dated to the Tang dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 18.57.5. Compare a closely related tea set with six cups in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Lu Chenglong’s Ceramics Gallery of Palace Museum: The Neolithic Period to Five Dynasties, Beijing, 2021, pl. 158. Compare a similar tea set without a central jar with nine cups, in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue of the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1981, no. 616.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong 16 December 2021, lot 5001
Price: HKD 60,480 or approx. EUR 7,300 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A sancai-glazed pottery tea set, Tang dynasty
Expert remark: Note the thickly applied glaze. Note the size (22.7 cm tray, 6.6 cm cups, 8.4 cm jar).
点此阅读中文翻译 (Chinese Translation)
唐代三彩陶茶具一套
中國，618-906年。作為喪葬儀式的一部分，七個杯子和中間的罐子被固定在圓形托盤上，在窯中一起燒製。釉料停在托盤短底座上方。通體施翠綠、黃釉，釉色細膩開片。
來源：香港一個著名家族的遺產，該家族在二十世紀五十年代移居加拿大時，隨身攜帶了大量陶器、瓷器和其他中國藝術品。從那時起，藏品在同一家族一直傳承到如今的最後一位主人。
品相：狀況良好，有一些燒製不規則和風化跡象，因爲長期埋藏所特有的土壤結殼，碎片、釉滴、凹坑和釉槽。
重量：1,168 克
尺寸：直徑 23.4 厘米 (盤)，6.3 厘米 (杯)，6.6 厘米 (罐)
文獻比較：
比較一件相近的唐代三彩罐，直徑7.6 厘米，牛津大學Ashmolean博物館，館藏編號EAX.1967。比較一件相近的唐代三彩罐，直徑9.2 厘米，收藏於大都會藝術博物館，館藏編號18.57.5。比較一件非常相近的茶具組，收藏於北京故宮博物院，見《Lu Chenglong’s Ceramics Gallery of Palace Museum: The Neolithic Period to Five Dynasties》，北京，2021年，圖158。比較一件相似的茶具組，收藏於 Idemitsu Museum of Art，見《The 15th Anniversary Catalogue of the Idemitsu Museum of Art》，東京，1981年，編號616。
拍賣結果比較：
形制：非常相近
拍賣：香港蘇富比，2021年12月16日， lot 5001
價格：HKD 60,480（相當於今日EUR 7,300）
描述：唐三彩茶器一組七件
專家評論：請注意厚重釉面。請注意尺寸(托盤22.7 厘米，杯6.6 厘米，壺8.4 厘米)。
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
China, 618-906. As part of funerary rituals, the seven cups and central jar are fixed to the circular tray having been fired together in the kiln. The glaze stops just above the short base of the tray. The emerald-green and yellow glazes are generously applied overall and are finely crackled.
Provenance: From the estate of a notable Hong Kong family, who brought a substantial collection of ceramics, porcelains, and other Chinese works of art with them when they immigrated to Canada in the 1950s. Thence by descent within the family to the last owner.
Condition: Good condition commensurate with age, with some firing irregularities and signs of weathering. Soil encrustations typical of objects buried for a prolonged period, chips, glaze drippings, pitting, and glaze recesses.
Weight: 1,168 g
Dimensions: Diameter 23.4 cm (tray), 6.3 cm (cups), 6.6 cm (jar)
Please click here to read the full description
Literature comparison:
Compare a related sancai-glazed jar, 7.6 cm in diameter, dated to the Tang dynasty, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, accession number EAX.1967. Compare a related sancai-glazed jar, 9.2 cm in diameter, dated to the Tang dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 18.57.5. Compare a closely related tea set with six cups in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Lu Chenglong’s Ceramics Gallery of Palace Museum: The Neolithic Period to Five Dynasties, Beijing, 2021, pl. 158. Compare a similar tea set without a central jar with nine cups, in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, illustrated in The 15th Anniversary Catalogue of the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1981, no. 616.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong 16 December 2021, lot 5001
Price: HKD 60,480 or approx. EUR 7,300 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A sancai-glazed pottery tea set, Tang dynasty
Expert remark: Note the thickly applied glaze. Note the size (22.7 cm tray, 6.6 cm cups, 8.4 cm jar).
点此阅读中文翻译 (Chinese Translation)
唐代三彩陶茶具一套
中國，618-906年。作為喪葬儀式的一部分，七個杯子和中間的罐子被固定在圓形托盤上，在窯中一起燒製。釉料停在托盤短底座上方。通體施翠綠、黃釉，釉色細膩開片。
來源：香港一個著名家族的遺產，該家族在二十世紀五十年代移居加拿大時，隨身攜帶了大量陶器、瓷器和其他中國藝術品。從那時起，藏品在同一家族一直傳承到如今的最後一位主人。
品相：狀況良好，有一些燒製不規則和風化跡象，因爲長期埋藏所特有的土壤結殼，碎片、釉滴、凹坑和釉槽。
重量：1,168 克
尺寸：直徑 23.4 厘米 (盤)，6.3 厘米 (杯)，6.6 厘米 (罐)
文獻比較：
比較一件相近的唐代三彩罐，直徑7.6 厘米，牛津大學Ashmolean博物館，館藏編號EAX.1967。比較一件相近的唐代三彩罐，直徑9.2 厘米，收藏於大都會藝術博物館，館藏編號18.57.5。比較一件非常相近的茶具組，收藏於北京故宮博物院，見《Lu Chenglong’s Ceramics Gallery of Palace Museum: The Neolithic Period to Five Dynasties》，北京，2021年，圖158。比較一件相似的茶具組，收藏於 Idemitsu Museum of Art，見《The 15th Anniversary Catalogue of the Idemitsu Museum of Art》，東京，1981年，編號616。
拍賣結果比較：
形制：非常相近
拍賣：香港蘇富比，2021年12月16日， lot 5001
價格：HKD 60,480（相當於今日EUR 7,300）
描述：唐三彩茶器一組七件
專家評論：請注意厚重釉面。請注意尺寸(托盤22.7 厘米，杯6.6 厘米，壺8.4 厘米)。
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