A blue and sancai-glazed 'mandarin duck' wine vessel,Tang dynasty唐 三彩加藍鸂鶒酒卮10.3 cm来源: Bonhams London, 15th May 2014, lot 3.A Hong Kong private collection.Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd July 2021, lot 5002.來源：倫敦邦瀚斯2014年5月15日，編號3香港私人收藏香港蘇富比2021年7月2日，編號5002拍品专文: During the Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road extended from Central Asia to Western Asia, bringing a diverse array of gold and silver objects, glassware, exotic materials, and decorative patterns to China. Craftsmen were exposed to various foreign objects and drew inspiration from their shapes and designs, resulting in unique creations. The present ‘mandarin duck’ ewer, for example, is influenced by the style of Sasanian gold and silver vessels and is among the few documented Tang Dynasty artifacts.Compare with a sancai ewer in the Shaanxi History Museum, which was unearthed in 1955 from a Tang tomb in Han Senzhai, Xi'an, illustrated in Yiri kanjin Chang’an hua: Tangdu Chang’an sancai wenwu jinhuazhan [A Day to Appreciate Chang'an's Splendor: A Highlight Exhibition of Tang Capital's Tri-colored Cultural Relics], Hangzhou, 2017, no. 2.唐代絲綢之路通達中亞以至西亞，各式金銀、琉璃器物、珍異材料，以至花紋圖案經此路傳入中土，工匠見識大量西域異物，參考其形制設計而有所獨創，如見此鸂鶒卮，器型受薩珊金銀器風格影響，亦為少數於文獻中有記載的唐代器物。《新五代史．卷五：唐本紀第五》記載：存勗年十一，從克用破王行瑜，遣獻捷於京師，昭宗異其狀貌，賜以鸂鶒卮、翡翠盤，而撫其背曰：「兒有奇表，後當富貴，無忘予家」。可藏考一相類三彩鸂鶒卮例，1955年西安市東郊韓森寨唐墓出土，現藏於陝西歷史博物館，載錄於《一日看盡長安花—唐都長安三彩文物精華展》，杭州西湖博物館，杭州，2017年，編號2。