A VERY RARE YUEYAO OWL-SHAPED JAR AND COVER

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A VERY RARE YUEYAO OWL-SHAPED JAR AND COVER
WESTERN JIN DYNASTY

The oval jar modelled as a bird, the rounded cover forming the head with a hooked beak in relief and large protuding bulging eyes, the body applied to the front with two three-clawed feet in relief, the sides incised and carved with a pair of raised wings drawing back towards a short tail, flanked by three small loop handles on each side, covered overall in a crackled glaze of olive-green tone and decorated with impressed circular florettes to the surface of the body and dotted grooves and indentations to the wings and head, the unglazed slightly concave base burnt orange in the firing (small chip to cover and minor loses to extremities)--8 1/4in. (21cm.) high

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Compare with two very closely related yueyao jars similarly modelled yet depicting bears, the first excavated in Yixing, Jiangsu, in 1976, now in the Nanjing Museum and illustrated in Zhonguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan, Ceramics, p. 200, no. 64; the other sold in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 521

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