A Blue-Splashed Pottery Jar, Tang Dynasty - Photo Sotheby's
the broad-shouldered body rising from a short spreading foot to a waisted short neck with everted rolled rim, covered overall in a pale whitish glaze suffused with irregular blue splashes, all falling short of the base to reveal the pale pinkish-buff body; 16cm., 6 1/4 in. Estimation: 6,000 - 8,000 GBP
PROVENANCE: The Property of a Lady.
Sotheby's London, 2nd March 1971, lot 122.
Eskenazi, London.
NOTE DE CATALOGUE: The dating of this piece is consistent with the results of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd.
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