A Grey Pottery Duck-Headed Vessel

WARRING STATES PERIOD/WESTERN HAN DYNASTY

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A Grey Pottery Duck-Headed Vessel
Warring States Period/Western Han Dynasty
The bulbous body raised on a spreading foot ring and surmounted by an arched neck terminating in a duck head with simple but elegant indication of feathers on the sides and above the eyes, with a rimmed aperture in the top of the head, faint traces of pigment
13in. (33cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's, New York, December 2, 1986, lot 11

Lot Essay

A very similar vessel in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is illustrated in A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 286 (upper left). It is possible the form is based on that of a gourd with a long, arched neck.

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