21. R1200

• From the personal collection of Susan Chen.
• From the Sze Yuan Tang Collection.
• Included by Littleton & Hennessy and published in their exhibition catalogue, The Splendour of Sancai, The Sze Yuan Tang Collection, The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, The Netherlands, March 2012, 41, where it mentions, “No other ewers of exactly the same form and decoration appear to be published”.
• Sold by Sotheby’s London in their auction of Important Chinese Art, 4th November 2020, lot 239.
• A related ewer of similar colour and splashing of the green glaze from the collection of Georges de Batz, described by Mathias Komor on 3^rd September 1947 as excavated at Tangyangyu in Henan Province, and exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in their exhibition of Chinese Ceramics and European Drawings, 1953, no. 55, was sold by Christie’s New York on 30^th November 1983, lot 295, p. 27.
• A related blue splashed pouring vessel, also with similar ribs on the shoulder, is included by Hirano Kotoken in their Exhibition of Old Chinese Ceramics, 1990, no. 27, where they also included a white pouring vessel with green and blue splashes, no. 25; a green splashed pouring vessel with a handle is illustrated by Li Huibing in Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, no. 167, p. 181, where the author notes “due to the discovery of green splashed shards, it is probable that this group were manufactured at the Gongxian kilns in Henan Province”.
• A similarly glazed tripod jar of this form also with the incised lines on the shoulder and green dappled glaze is illustrated by Brian McElney in Chinese Ceramics, Volume 1, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Inaugural Exhibition, no. 27, p. 64.
• Three larger green and white splashed ewers with handles and a taller cylindrical neck are illustrated by the Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, in their exhibition of The Art of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, 1976, no. 1-98, p. 14, by He Li in Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, no. 162, and by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, no. 278, p.156.

• The dating of this piece is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication , no. C.208c14.

One flake chip to the underside of the rim and another tiny flake to the rim, an area to the body restored measuring approx. 3cm x 5cm, minute foot nicks and one tiny hole for thermoluminescence test to the foot rim.