A blue-splashed and sancai phoenix-head ewer, Tang dynasty | 唐　三彩加藍鳳首壺

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Sancai-glazed ewers of this type are noted for their remarkable chromatic variety. Particularly rare examples showcase a fusion of imported cobalt-blue pigments with amber glazes, creating a visual spectacle that is both vibrant and historically significant. Compare two ewers housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: one from the Ernest S. Heller Collection and another, formerly from the Stanley Herzman Collection, which was sold at Sotheby's New York on 6th November 1981, lot 161, and subsequently published in Suzanne Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1992, pl. 6. A third related ewer,in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, pl.166. Compare also two highly related ewers sold in our New York rooms: one was in the Szeyuan Tang Collection and sold on 21st September 2005, lot 16, and another piece sold on 20th March 2007, lot 601； and another two sold in Christie's Hong Kong, one sold on 30th November, 2016, lot 3306, and another sold on 31st May 2017, lot 3310.

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壺中居，東京

三彩執壺顏色多變，其中使用進口鈷藍料與琥珀釉結合者，可參考紐約大都會藝術博物館藏兩例：一為歐內斯特·海勒舊藏，一為斯坦利·赫茲曼舊藏，後者曾於1981年11月6日經紐約蘇富比釋出，編號161，並著錄於於蘇珊·瓦倫斯坦，《The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics》（赫茲曼藏中國陶瓷），香港，1992年，圖版6；舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏一例亦資參考，見賀莉，《Chinese ceramics : a new comprehensive survey from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco》（中國陶瓷藝術通鑒：舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏珍），1996年，圖版166。另可參照紐約蘇富比售出兩件，一為思源堂舊藏，2005年9月21日，編號16，以及另一件2007年3月20日售出，編號601。尚可比較香港佳士得售出兩件，一件售於2016年11月30日，編號3306；一件售於2017年5月31日，編號3310。