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THREE EARLY UNGLAZED POTTERY VESSELS, comprising a large painted pottery vase, hu, modelled after a bronze prototype with spherical body, spreading base and waisted neck, the shoulder with taotie-mask handles, painted in red, orange and mauve slips with a frieze of abstracted animal patterns, Han Dynasty, 56cm. high; a red-painted cylindrical granary jar, supported on three animal-mask feet, the body with triple concentric raised bands enclosing four bands, the top and bottom bands with painted hanging blades enclosing a classic-scroll band above a diamond-decorated band, the roof-like top with a central round aperture (paint flaking), Han Dynasty, 34cm. high; and a small grey pottery flattened flask, the heart-shaped body with two handles on a flaring foot, the central panel with dancing figure enclosed in foliate sprays, Liao Dynasty, 12cm. high (3)