A BURNISHED BLACK POTTERY JAR AND COVER, HU
A BURNISHED BLACK POTTERY JAR AND COVER, HU

WARRING STATES PERIOD-EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

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A BURNISHED BLACK POTTERY JAR AND COVER, HU
WARRING STATES PERIOD-EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 3RD-2ND CENTURY BC
The jar and cover have a burnished black exterior. The body of the jar is encircled by three double-grooved bands -- one mid-body, the other two forming the borders of a wide matte band decorated with burnished vertical zigzags on the shoulder below the waisted neck. A related matte band encircles the spreading pedestal foot, and is repeated on the low conical cover where it is interrupted by three apertures for the insertion of finials.
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Anna Ilsley Ball Kneeland (1865-1955), New York, acquired 1918-1931, and thence by descent within the family.
Exhibited
On loan: Yale University Art Gallery, 1955 to April 2014.

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