Tang or Tang style, dish in the form of four ruyi heads and supported on four scroll feet, decorated with impressed floral designs, amber and blue glaze on straw colored ground, amber and black glazed exterior, 2-3/8 x 11-1/4 in.; large plate decorated with impressed flower head and encircled by racing cockerels, blue, green, and amber glaze on straw colored ground, with label "RCE/63", 11 in. - Provenance: Robert C. Eldred Co. 1971 (Plate); Property from the Collection of Senator Hugh Scott, now the Property of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Condition
quatrefoil dish with restoration to one ruyi head and other areas of repair, small glaze flaws (as made); plate with kiln flaws, glaze losses; other scratches and wear