A Rare Olive-Glazed Proto-Porcelain Tripod Ewer and Cover

WARRING STATES PERIOD

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A Rare Olive-Glazed Proto-Porcelain Tripod Ewer and Cover
Warring States Period
The globular body raised on three splayed supports encircled by three narrow ropetwist bands separating bands of small impressed scrolls, with a pierced tail-like flange below the arched handle on one side and a short curved animal head spout on the other, the cover also with impressed scroll pattern surrounding a small bird seated within a linear border, covered overall with a thin olive-toned glaze
9¼in. (23.5cm.) across

Lot Essay

Ewers of this type are based on bronze prototypes, such as the ewer illustrated in Gems of China's Cultural Relics, 1993, pl. 82. See, also, the similar proto-porcelain ewer in the Ashmolean Museum illustrated by W. Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China, London, 1991, pl. V; and another in Zhongguo meishu quanji; Gongyi meishu bian; Taoci (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts; Arts and Crafts; Ceramics), Shanghai, vol. 1, 1991, p. 76, no. 89.

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