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Amphora with dragon-shaped handles

Glazed Stoneware - Tang Dynasty. Two dragon-shaped handles.
'Excellent workmanship, good blanket. It is a very common form in European and Chinese museums. Greco-Roman form, evidence of the intense relations between China and the Sassanid Empire of that period. Very elegant shape'. (Ye Zhemin).
In the museum since 1929. From Luoyang


N° cna0210 - Tang Dynasty 618-907
Glazed Stoneware, MISURE H. cm. 42.7. ø cm. 21.6