A Yueyao storage jar

HAN DYNASTY

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A Yueyao storage jar
Han Dynasty
The ovoid body glazed and encircled around the upper half with three raised grooved ribs, between carved abstract lineair scrolls with bird motifs, applied with taotie loop handles below a flattened rim, the upper section covered with a crackled glaze of olive-green tone (some damages)
28 cm. high

Lot Essay

This type of ware represents the earliest celadon ceramics in China and was made from the late Western Han till the Eastern Han Period. Similar jars were excavated in towns near Nanjing, Hangzhou and Wuhu. For a similar example see The Freer Gallery of Art, K.R. Tsiang, Glazed Stonewares of the Han Dynasty, Artibus Asiae, 1978, no. 9.

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