WHITE-GLAZED BOTTLE
TANG DYNASTY
唐 白釉盤口瓶of slightly compressed globular form surmounted with a flared galleried rim on the short cylindrical neck, covered with a creamy white glaze thinning and stopping irregularly above foot
14cm high 
Private Scottish collection, Scottish Borders. The owner had an enduring friendship with Dr Kenneth Lawley (1937-2023), a lifelong Asian art collector and a significant part of whose collection was sold in this saleroom, 3 November 2023, lot 1-95. Dr Lawley was close to the collection offered in this sale, indeed some of the items came directly from him. He would share his research, his catalogue, and his admiration of these items with the owner, as a natural consequence of their friendship. Acquired from Dr Kenneth Lawley, 28 Sep 2002, with an original invoice, who bought from John Sparks, 2 Dec 1964, with an original receipt and label on the base. Exhibited: Early Oriental Ceramics, MacRobert Centre, University of Stirling, 5-25 July 1973, no. 8. Illustrated in the exhibition photograph (circled). 
A white-glazed bottle vase, highly similar in shape but with cover and different treatment to the foot, sold at Sotheby's New York, 28 March 2023, lot 864.