A Grey Pottery 'Cocoon' Jar

HAN DYNASTY

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A Grey Pottery 'Cocoon' Jar
Han Dynasty
The cocoon-shaped vessel burnished and scored with linear bands, raised on a spreading pedestal foot encircled by two ribbed bands, the waisted neck also ribbed below the everted flanged mouth rim, with traces of painted decoration in red, white and cream
17in. (43.2cm.) long

Lot Essay

A jar of this type with red-brown lacquer decoration was excavated from a Western Han tomb at Yinque Shan, Linyi county, and illustrated in Kaogu, 1975:6, pl. 6, fig. 3. See, also, the similar jar sold in our London rooms, 10 December 1990, lot 73.

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