A Rare Olive-Glazed Proto-Porcelain Tripod Ewer and Cover

WARRING STATES PERIOD

细节

A Rare Olive-Glazed Proto-Porcelain Tripod Ewer and Cover
Warring States Period
The globular body raised on three splayed supports encircled by three narrow ropetwist bands separating bands of small impressed scrolls, with a pierced tail-like flange below the arched handle on one side and a short curved animal head spout on the other, the cover also with impressed scroll pattern surrounding a small bird seated within a linear border, covered overall with a thin olive-toned glaze
9¼in. (23.5cm.) across

拍品专文

Ewers of this type are based on bronze prototypes, such as the ewer illustrated in Gems of China's Cultural Relics, 1993, pl. 82. See, also, the similar proto-porcelain ewer in the Ashmolean Museum illustrated by W. Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China, London, 1991, pl. V; and another in Zhongguo meishu quanji; Gongyi meishu bian; Taoci (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts; Arts and Crafts; Ceramics), Shanghai, vol. 1, 1991, p. 76, no. 89.