THREE SANCAI-GLAZED DISHES
Liao and Tang Dynasty
Comprising: two circular dishes, one carved with a stylised open lotus flowerhead to the well, on a splashed green ground within an amber glazed rim; one moulded with flower sprays and foliage, detailed in green and amber on a cream ground; and a foliate rimmed square dish with further moulded floral and foliate decoration.
The largest 24cm (9 1/2in) diam. (3).
Footnotes:
遼及唐 三彩盤 三件

Provenance: the larger dish: Henry de Laszlo (1901-1967) collection (label).

For a related circular Liao dish see J. White and R.Y. Otsuk Pathways to the Afterlife: Early Chinese Art from the Sze Hong Collection, 1993, pp. 96-7, no. 43. For a related square dish see M. Yutaka, Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty, 1973, p. 48, cat. no. 22.

General old wear and imperfections.

The largest dish - approx. 3/4 of the rim broken in a few sections - part restuck, one section broken off but present and approx. 9cm long rim section missing. Further rim chips and small glaze losses.

The square dish with a small chip to one corner.

The other dish generally ok.