Lot Essay
A green-glazed hu of similar form, also molded with a band of a hunting scence, is in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics I, 1988, p. 14. no. 47
Details
A GREEN-GLAZED MOLDED RED POTTERY HU
HAN DYNASTY
The high shoulder of the tapering body crisply molded with a pair of mask and ring handles separating two hunting scenes incorporating equestrian archers, bears, boars, tigers and mountains, set between single and double bowstring borders, covered with a crackled glaze of deep, leaf- green tone continuing over the mouth rim; together with a small green-glazed red pottery model of a ram pen, Han dynasty, modeled as a ram standing within a walled circular pen with a roofed entry cut into one side, the glaze now degraded to a silvery iridescence
Jar 14¼in. (36.2cm.); pen 7¼in. (18.4cm.) across (2)
HAN DYNASTY
The high shoulder of the tapering body crisply molded with a pair of mask and ring handles separating two hunting scenes incorporating equestrian archers, bears, boars, tigers and mountains, set between single and double bowstring borders, covered with a crackled glaze of deep, leaf- green tone continuing over the mouth rim; together with a small green-glazed red pottery model of a ram pen, Han dynasty, modeled as a ram standing within a walled circular pen with a roofed entry cut into one side, the glaze now degraded to a silvery iridescence
Jar 14¼in. (36.2cm.); pen 7¼in. (18.4cm.) across (2)
Provenance
Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez Collection (ram pen)
Exhibited
College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, March 23-April 30, 1972, no. 6, fig. 2