Chinese pottery sancai, three-colour glazed quatrefoil moulded cup, bei, Tang dynasty, Gongxian kilns, Henan Province, 7th – 8th century

Chinese pottery sancai, three-colour glazed quatrefoil moulded cup, bei, fluted with twelve foliate lobes, the interior splashed with amber and white on a predominantly green ground, the exterior with four raised leaf scroll-end reserves, each on a stippled ground and beneath linear fluting at the rim, the well of the interior with three spur marks from the firing.

4 5/8 inches, 11.8 cm across; 4 3/8 inches, 11.1 cm deep.

Tang dynasty, Gongxian kilns, Henan Province, 7th – 8th century.

• From an old Japanese private collection.
• Sold by Tsutsumi, Tokyo, Japan.
• A related moulded flower-shape cup fluted with eight petals, from the R. H. R. Palmer collection, is illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, no. 249, pp. 146/7; and another with nine lobes was included by Eskenazi in their exhibition of Ancient Chinese bronze vessels, gilt bronzes and early ceramics, 1973, no. 37, pp. 64/5; another with eight lobes in blue, cream and amber glaze, donated by Harvey Hadden in 1930, is in the British Museum, collection no. 1930,0719.50.

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