Tang three-color dragon horn cup

• RMB 3360349
• HKD 4003908
• USD 516500
• EUR 408035

the Victoria and Albert museum, London, 1977-1985 (loan)
the Dallas museum of art, from 1985 to 1988 (loan)

related information of this product Angle cup, elegant shape, pearl leaf veins of the decoration, exquisite and meticulous, fine of goods when the Angle is existing in the tang dynasty the cup. Bristol city art gallery collection a brown glaze, The shape and decorative pattern is relatively simple, from Schiller collection, exhibition has The inscription: The Arts of The T “ang Dynasty, Los Angeles county museum of art, Los Angeles, in 1957, no. 184; Other than a green glaze example, longkou bit bead, see figure inscription: complete works the world ceramics, volume 11, Tokyo, 1976, 129, chart twice sotheby’s ‘s in London, before April 7, 1981, no. 140, on June 10, 1986, no. 14. The Number of the Other comparable duck shape cups, one is now in Beijing’ s Palace Museum, figure inscription: the ceramic made up of the series of the national Palace Museum collection, (2) in sui, tang and five dynasties “, volume 5, Beijing, 2013, 295; Chart Another example is to in The inscription: The Charles b. Hoyt Collection in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1964, volume 1, 94 chart; The third case was fair east ceramic society inscription: Arts of the T “ang Dynasty, London, 1955, no. 146, sotheby’s sale in London on July 14, 1970, no. 9. More than one, sotheby’s sale in London on June 21, 1983, no. 95.

Angle cup, originally ox horn or rhino horn, drinking, and xenophobia towards Asia made with silver or gem, then to China, as early as the han dynasty have been seen, material variety, such as ceramic, glass, and silver, etc. Angle of cup in tang dynasty, many Persian silver as template, such as see the British museum in London to collect a white glaze example, record the Margaret Medley, inscription: T ‘ang Pottery & Porcelain “, London, 1981, 4, but see this Angle cup outside its shape, etc., were known its has been attracting Chinese style element.