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A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED EWER
- TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED EWER
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
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    $25,000 - $35,000

Sale Information

Sale 2196
fine chinese ceramics and works of art
15 September 2009
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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Lot Description

A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED EWER
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The body set with a short tapered spout and applied with a curved bifurcated handle set with studs at each end, covered in a clear finely crackled glaze stopping at the slightly spreading flat base
12 3/8 in. (32 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

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Provenance

Acquired in Osaka, Japan in the 1930s.

Lot Notes

A very similar, though much smaller (16.2 cm.) Tang white-glazed ewer is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 81, no. 211.

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