A WHITE-GLAZED HU-SHAPED VASE, moulded around the body with horizontal ribs, two strap handles at the shoulder and a pierced wide flaring base, all below a transparent pale-green glaze, 4th Century, 20.6cm. high; and a white-glazed jar of rounded shape on a hollow pedestal foot with a wide mouth and two pinched strap handles at the shoulder on a horizontal incised band, 6th Century, 11.2cm. high (2) | Christie's

Lot 385

385

A WHITE-GLAZED HU-SHAPED VASE, moulded around the body with horizontal ribs, two strap handles at the shoulder and a pierced wide flaring base, all below a transparent pale-green glaze, 4th Century, 20.6cm. high; and a white-glazed jar of rounded shape on a hollow pedestal foot with a wide mouth and two pinched strap handles at the shoulder on a horizontal incised band, 6th Century, 11.2cm. high (2)

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A WHITE-GLAZED HU-SHAPED VASE, moulded around the body with horizontal ribs, two strap handles at the shoulder and a pierced wide flaring base, all below a transparent pale-green glaze, 4th Century, 20.6cm. high; and a white-glazed jar of rounded shape on a hollow pedestal foot with a wide mouth and two pinched strap handles at the shoulder on a horizontal incised band, 6th Century, 11.2cm. high (2)

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It is unusual to find such an early example of well-potted North Vietnamese ceramics clearly copying South Chinese prototypes of metal inspiration

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