A Chinese amber-glazed marbled pottery cup, Tang dynasty 唐 琥珀釉絞胎盃

拍品描述

Potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to an everted rim, formed from brown and white clay marbled to produce a design of mixed dark and light irregular swirling stripes under a thin amber glaze Size:(9cm diameter) Qty: (1) Provenance:Acquired on the French art market between 1980 and 2000; Geoffrey Middle collection 來源： 傑佛瑞 · 米德爾先生珍藏 Notes: Marbling, or jiao tai ('mixed clay'), was a decoration technique found in the ceramics of the Tang dynasty. Although formerly thought to be derived from the tixi multi-coloured lacquer tradition, recent scholarship finds the inspiration to have more likely come from marbled glasswares of the ancient Near East. Fragments of marbled pottery have been unearthed at the Gongxian kilns at Huangye in Gongyi, Henan province, and are illustrated in 'Three-Colour Glazed Pottery Kilns of the Tang Dynasty at Huangye', Beijing, 2000, col. pl. 71, no. 9. Fragments have also been found at the Liquanfang kilns in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, published in 'The Kiln Site of Tricolor-Glazed Pottery at Liquanfang in Chang’an Capital City of Tang Dynasty', Beijing, 2008, col. pl. 39. See a related cup from the Pilkington collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 6th April 2016, lot 75. 絞胎，即混合陶泥之意，是唐代陶瓷中極具藝術表現力的裝飾技法。透過將兩種或多種不同顏色的胎泥交替疊合、揉絞、切片，燒製後形成如同大理石紋理般的裝飾效果。過去學界常認為絞胎工藝源自唐代的剔犀多色漆器傳統，但現代學術觀點已有所修正，學者們認為絞胎工藝的靈感來源更可能受到古代近東絞胎玻璃器的影響。這種跨地域的工藝交流，不僅反映了絲綢之路上的文化互鑒，也體現了唐代陶工對異國材質紋飾的審美再創造。 對於絞胎工藝的斷代與窯口研究可參考出土的絞胎陶片標本，收錄於《唐代鞏義黃冶窯三彩窯址》，北京，2000年，彩圖 71，編號 9；考古發現的陶片紀錄見於《唐長安城醴泉坊三彩窯址》，北京，2008年，彩圖 39。 同類器物拍賣紀錄可參見香港佳士得，皮肯頓舊藏，2016年4月6日，拍品編號 75。

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