A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY BOWL AND COVER

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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY BOWL AND COVER
HAN DYNASTY

The bowl and cover painted in salmon pink and pale greenish white with bands of sweeping interlaced scrolls set between decorative salmon-pink borders, the bowl raised on a shallow foot ring and the cover with a shallow rim encircling a central whorl motif, some rubbing of pigment (shallow rim chips)
7 3/8in. (18.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare a painted pottery bowl and cover illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1955, no. 10. The shape and decoration of this lot closely follow contemporary lacquer pieces. See the bowl and cover, excavated from a tomb in Hubei in 1976, and currently in the Hubei Provincial Museum, illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Chinese Ancient Lacquer, Beijing, 1987, no. 12