A Green-Glazed Grey Stoneware Vase

6TH CENTURY

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A Green-Glazed Grey Stoneware Vase
6th Century
The heavily potted body molded and applied with overlapping rows of pendent lotus petals and leaves, with alternating paired and single loop handles at the base of the neck, the single loops issuing from a monster mask, the paired loops backed by a racing demon figure, and with two apsara appliques below the flared rim, all under a transparent glaze of sea-green tone suffused with fine crackle
13in. (33.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the vase of this type, with slightly more elaborate decoration, and a cover, reported to be excavated from Shangcai county, Henan province and now in the Museum of Chinese History, included in the exhibition, National Treasures-Gems of China's Cultural Relics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 16 December 1997 - 1 March 1998, pp. 208-209, where it is noted that vases of this type have been unearthed from tombs of the Southern and Northern dynasties in Jing county, Hebei province and Wuhan, Hubei province. See, also, the example with dancers molded on the neck dated to the Northern dynasties illustrated by Li Zhiyan and Cheng Wen, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Beijing, 1984, pl. 17. The dancer appliques are reminiscent of those found in caves of North China and Central Asia.

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