An Olive-Glazed Proto-Porcelain Jar

HAN DYNASTY

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An Olive-Glazed Proto-Porcelain Jar
Han dynasty
The compressed globular body raised on three truncated supports, the shoulder with two bands of combed wavy lines within grooved borders interrupted by a pair of applied mask and ring handles molded in thread relief on two sides and a pair of projecting strap handles molded with humanoid masks above vertical ribs on the other two sides, all under an olive glaze ending just below the shoulder to expose the ware burnt red in the firing
11in. (28cm.) across handles

Lot Essay

A similar example of this type of jar in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 8, no. 13; and another with cover in Zhongguo meishu quanji: gongyi meishu bian; taoci (The Great Treasury of Chinese Ceramics: Arts and Crafts; Ceramics), Shanghai, 1991, vol. 1, no. 140.

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