A fine 'Sancai' earthenware jart with brown glaze interrupted by beige-green slashes

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Result:

3.885 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Tang Dynasty
H. 19,3/ D. 23,5 cm
An old and important German private collection, collected from the 1950s until 2007, according to a handwritten note from the Kaiser Regensburg collection, purchased from Hampel Munich, 20.9.2002, lot 3103
Simple spherical vessels without handles from the Tang period (618-907) are typically known as wan nian guan or "ten-thousand-year vessels". These burial vessels were usually filled with grain and buried with the deceased in the Tang burial grounds. Although they were initially produced only as high shouldered, pear-shaped vessels in black, brown and white glazes, the 8th and 9th century potters created the more rounded type of wan nian guan in a variety of bright sancai lead glazes. These low-fired vessels appear to have originally been the product of a single firing district in Henan before becoming a staple of other northern distilleries. For a discussion of the development of these vessels see W. Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, New York, 1984, pp. 108-113, and R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1996, pp. 88-89. - Minimal signs of age, well preserved

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