SUI or TANG DYNASTY 7th or Early 8th Century Tang Pottery
A Sui or Early Tang White Stoneware Stem-Dish or Tazza, 7th or Early 8th Century, from Henan Province.
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- Condition
- Very good, small shallow chip to the footrim c.5 x 3 mm.
- Size
- Diameter : 11.8 cm (4 1/2 inches).
- Provenance
- N/A
- Stock number
- 21177
- References
- For a Tang Pottery tazza see : Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection Volume 1 (Regina Krahl, Azimuth Editions, 1994) Page 153 Item 273. For a further Tang stem-dish with a sancai glaze described as unusual see : Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Sotheby`s Hong Kong, 20th November 1985, lot 4. The catalogue sites several other Tang sancai examples and also mentions a gilt-bronze stem-dish of the same form excavated from the tomb of Zheng Rentai in Shaanxi province, this was dated 664.
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Tang ceramic tazza were used for a variety of purposes, they might be stands for cups or jars but could equally well be used for offerings.