AN AMBER-GLAZED POTTERY JAR AND COVER, HU

HAN DYNASTY

Details

AN AMBER-GLAZED POTTERY JAR AND COVER, HU
Han Dynasty
Of characteristic shape with compressed ovoid body and broad waisted neck, the shoulder molded with a frieze depicting a hunting scene with figures mounted on mythical beasts firing arrows at feline animals flanking two taotie masks suspending fixed rings, the shallow domed cover molded with crane-like birds, mythical beasts and further taotie, the glaze of deep amber tone
13in. (33cm.) high, box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics I: Neolithic to Liao, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 42

Exhibited

Singapore, The Empress Place Museum, Gems of Chinese Art, Selections of Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui Art Foundation, 1992 - 1995, no. 14

Lot Essay

Compare the similar hu in the British Museum illustrated by S.J. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1991, p. 43, fig. 29.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c76 is consistent with the dating of this lot