A VERY RARE YUEYAO BEAR JAR

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A VERY RARE YUEYAO BEAR JAR
JIN/SOUTHERN DYNASTIES, 4TH-5TH CENTURY

Of double-gourd shape with a bear's face and legs, modelled eating fruit, the reverse applied with spinelike detail, all under a greyish-green celadon glaze (small extremity restorations)
4 1/4 in. (11 cm.) high

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol I, pl. 58.

Lot Essay

This jar together with the previous lot refer well to the larger bear jars with related features, such as the one excavated in Yixing, Jiangsu, in 1976, now in the Nanjing Museum and illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan, Ceramics, p. 200, no. 64; and to the example included in our sale, 3 November 1996, lot XXXX.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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