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A STRAW-GLAZED DOUBLE-DRAGON-HANDLED AMPHORA VASE, TANG DYNASTY
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2024年12月17日 开拍
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A STRAW-GLAZED DOUBLE-DRAGON-HANDLED AMPHORA VASE, TANG DYNASTY

Scientific Analysis Report: A thermoluminescence analysis report issued by Oxford Authentication on 2 August 2024, based on sample number P124f99, sets the firing date of one sample taken between 900 and 1400 years ago, consistent with the dating above. A copy of the report accompanies this lot.

China, 618-907. Superbly potted, the well-rounded ovoid body rising from a flat foot, surmounted by a waisted neck and cupped mouth, flanked by a pair of curved strap handles terminating in dragon heads biting the lipped rim. Covered with a finely crackled straw glaze that falls on the body in an irregular line exposing the buff ware.

Provenance: Collection of Solomon and Hannah Shahmoon, New Rochelle, New York, United States, and thence by descent. Solomon E. Shahmoon (1893-1987) emigrated to Shanghai from Baghdad in 1911 and became a renowned property developer and financier during the peak of the early 20th century building boom and the city's development as the major commercial center in Asia. His success was capped in 1927 by the construction of the eight-story Shahmoon Building dominating the Bund and sited above their Art Deco masterpiece, The Capitol Theater. In 1928 Mr. Shahmoon made Paris his residence, visiting Shanghai periodically to invest in property. In 1938 he re-visited Baghdad where he met and married Hannah, and the couple settled in Paris where their first daughter was born. The Shahmoons collected art, objects, carpets, and furniture, and at the end of 1939, left Paris ahead of the Nazis for New York, where they settled permanently, first in Manhattan and then in New Rochelle. Much of their collection from both Shanghai and Paris was eventually reunited with them in New Rochelle, where they raised their four daughters in their large, Spanish-style stucco home.
Condition: Excellent condition, commensurate with age. Old wear and manufacturing irregularities including firing cracks, dark spots, glaze recesses, and orange speckling indicating overfiring. Light flaking to the glaze, small chips, two drilled holes from sample taking.

Weight: 1,799 g
Dimensions: Height 34.3 cm

Expert’s note:
Tang amphorae of this flamboyant form, with freely modeled dragon heads, are among the most characteristic vessel forms of the early Tang dynasty and reflect the international spirit of the period. Their form was inspired by Hellenistic glass vases made in the Roman Empire whose style reached China via the Silk Route, where it was modified by the addition of dragon heads. One of the rare extant Roman glass vessels of this form, which is based on Greek pottery vessels, is the famous amphora found in Olbia, on the Black sea (today Ukraine), which can be dated to the 2nd half of the 2nd century AD, and is now on display in the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany, identity number 30219, 254.

White stoneware pieces of this type can be attributed to the Gongyi kilns in Henan province. Several white dragon-handled amphorae without applications are included in Zhongguo gu ciyao daxi. Zhongguo Gongyi yao/Series of China’s Ancient Porcelain Kiln Sites. Gongyi Kiln of China, Beijing, 2011, where it is suggested, pp. 325f., that pieces with long neck are predating pieces with short neck, and a color-glazed example of very similar proportions, excavated from a tomb at Guanlin, Luoyang, illustrated fig. 4: 6, is attributed to the period of 618 – c. 690; several white pieces excavated from Tang tombs in the Gongyi region, fragments of similar dragon-head handles from the Baihe kiln site in Gongyi, and one further example from the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, are illustrated, ibid., pp. 97-99; p. 262; p. 270, figs 7 and 8; p. 282, fig. 3; p. 309, fig. 16; and p. 413.

Literature comparison:
Compare a near identical amphora with dragon-shaped handles, 34.3 cm high, dated to the 7th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 29.100.217.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 27 March 2018, lot 27
Price: USD 17,500 or approx. EUR 20,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A straw-glazed stoneware amphora, Tang dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the closely related form with the glaze stopping above the foot. Note the size (36.5 cm).

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