HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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A SMALL GILT-BRONZE TRIPOD JAR
Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)
Of compressed pear-shape, raised on three cabriole legs and cast with a bowstring band interrupted by a pair of ring handles below the edge of the shoulder which rises to a waisted neck and flared mouth rim, the gilding with brownish encrustation below the rim and on the underside and legs
7in. (17.8cm.) across handles

Lot Essay

This small jar is similar, but not identical in form, to a small jar with cover, also raised on tripod feet and with ring handles, excavated at Sanjiaowei in Tianchang county, Anhui province, and illustrated in Wenwu, 1993:9, pl. 1, fig. 2, and in a line drawing p. 7, fig. 2. See, also, the bronze jar of more similar form without tripod legs, excavated from the Western Han dynasty tomb of the King of Nanyue, discovered in the autumn of 1983, Xianggang, Guangzhou province, and illustrated in a line drawing in Xi Han Nanyue wang mu (Nanyue King's Tomb of the Western Han), vol. I, Beijing 1991, p. 82, fig. 1.

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