A RARE PAINTED BLACK POTTERY STEMMED VESSEL

MID/LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH/5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A RARE PAINTED BLACK POTTERY STEMMED VESSEL
Mid/Late Spring and Autumn Period, 6th/5th Century B.C.
The bowl of compressed spherical shape with flaring rim and two large lug handles flanking the waisted neck, raised on a spreading pedestal foot with a rolled edge, the exterior of the bowl painted with bands of cream triangles outlined in russet above beaker-shaped motifs around the waisted stem
9in. (22.8cm.) wide

拍品專文

A vessel of this unusual form, but without painted decoration, excavated in 1992 from a tomb in Sichuan province, Mao County, Nanxing Xiang, Moutou Village, is illustrated in Wenwu, 1994:3, p. 10, fig. 8, where the tomb is dated to the mid/late Spring and Autumn period based on the bronzes found in the tomb

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c99 is consistent with the dating of this lot