A Rare Green-Glazed Red Pottery Ovoid Jar

SUI/EARLY TANG DYNASTY

細節

A Rare Green-Glazed Red Pottery Ovoid Jar
Sui/Early Tang Dynasty
Perhaps imitating a metal prototype, the shoulder applied with three large foliate roundels with beaded borders alternating with three monster mask and fixed ring plaques flanked by small beaded bosses, the latter repeated in the lower register between large quatrefoil and flowerhead appliques, and with a pair of small lug handles for suspension on either side between the two registers, all under a leaf-green glaze falling short of the flat base and bearing traces of red pigment
16in. (40.7cm.) high

拍品專文

Compare the similarly dated green-glazed jars of different form but with the same applied molded relief decoration illustrated by Jan Fontein and Wu Tung, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, fig. 43 and by Margaret Medley, Tang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 19, fig. 3.