A Dark Red Pottery Two-Handled Jar
Warring States Period
Impressed allover with diaper pattern and set on the high shoulder with a pair of ropetwist handles, the short neck flaring to a slightly everted rim, of dark purplish-red color
17½in. (44.4cm.) across
Lot Essay
A jar with impressed decoration and with ropetwist handles is illustrated by M. Uragami, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic Period to the Western Han, Tokyo, 1991, p. 72, no. 116.
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