A Large Grey Pottery Lian and Cover

HAN DYNASTY

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A Large Grey Pottery Lian and Cover
Han dynasty
The broad circular vessel raised on three squatting bear supports and encircled by two bands at top and bottom delineated by narrow grooved lines, the domed cover with everted rim and carved with a band of scallop design below the simple loop knop suspending a loose ring
12¾in. (32.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A comparable grey pottery lian with a cover and bear-like feet in the Freer Gallery of Art is published in Han Tang taoci daquan (Complete Han and Tang Ceramics), Taipei, 1987-89, p. 87; and in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 9, p. 163, no. 2.

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