A Green-Glazed Globular Jar and a Cover

LATE 6TH CENTURY

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A Green-Glazed Globular Jar and a Cover
Late 6th Century
The upper body carved with a band of pendent petals below two single and two pairs of squared lug handles joined by a double line border, the cover carved in high relief with petals with raised tips, the transparent glaze suffused with crackle and of sea-green tone
9in. (24cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similar jar in the Honolulu Academy of Arts illustrated by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 67, pl. 59, where the author notes that by the end of the 6th century the molding of the leaf tips in high relief had been abandoned for an incised line, as seen on the present jar. A jar of this earlier type is illustrated op. cit., p. 66, pl. 58.

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