Tang three-color yuanyang pot

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exhibition ace kerner qi, the Ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics “, New York, in 1999, possesses the 12 focus,

this pot of sculpture is exquisite exquisite, vivid, lifelike, honesty is the tang dynasty boutique in the three-color apparatus. Three-color duck shape is very rare, there are few and far between, and this is particularly beautiful, especially the head crest and tail back and forth, realistic and clever shows the characteristics of mandarin duck. Its actual use still unknown, but are not cover other known examples. Popular duck shape censer in tang dynasty, which had been recorded many tang poems, such as tang dynasty poet li shangyin “promote leakage” wrote in a poem “dance luan dressing case residual Diane, sleep censer in skarn smoked duck”, therefore this device may be used as incense burner.
this modelling is very rare and is probably the orphan works. Have a model with this device is a bit similar example, henan museum, description in “China ceramics complete – 7 – tang”, Kyoto, 1983, 84 chart (figure 1), also named as “three-color yuanyang pot,” but the lack of champions league, also a slender neck. Another example of Tokyo chestnut original gallery, sotheby’s in New York on September 15, 2015, 259 items. The pot cover, three-color blue glaze as lack of crown and neck slender example above, the body part to drum nails, and the big feather on the back. Modelling and household chestnut gallery instance of a third example is similar, in San Francisco museum of Asian art number B60P1108 (collection). Last case modelling is different, the duck back in shape, print volume grass grain, the wings and the realism of the obviously different, jing jia hall library, cataloguing in Zhu Yuping in Taipei in 1997 published “significance in China”, chart 25-3.
this one by the Oxford thermoluminescence dating test (test number c111h24; On August 4, 2011), confirmed and granded “dating”.