A YUEYAO PROTOPORCELAIN JAR

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A YUEYAO PROTOPORCELAIN JAR
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY

The globular body incised with three registers of stylized birds separated by applied grooved bands, two of the bands spanned by a pair of strap handles impressed with a herringbone pattern issuing from a molded mask above and with a mock ring below, with combed wave bands encircling the base of the neck and the flared mouth, the inside of the mouth and the upper body covered with a crackled olive-green kiln gloss, neck and lower body unglazed--13in. (33cm.) high

拍品專文

Compare the similar jar included in the Memorial Exhibition of the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, February 13-March 30, 1952, Catalogue, no. 63, and another in the Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by Katherine R. Tsiang, "Glazed Stonewares of the Han Dynasty: Part One - The Eastern Group, " Artibus Asiae, vol. XL, 1978, fig. 20