A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY CYLINDRICAL JAR

HAN WARES

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A PAINTED GRAY POTTERY CYLINDRICAL JAR
HAN DYNASTY

The sides well painted with two rows of scrolling foliate arabesques in white, gray and pale green pigments on a red ground between white line borders, with pale green and white foliate meander below and above and on the shoulder, the base of the short neck encircled by a dogtooth border in red and white--7 7/8 in. (20cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare another painted cylindrical jar, also dated to the Han Dynasty, in the Hoyt Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, illustrated in the Catalogue, Vol. I, no. 29

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 566z49 is consistent with the dating of this lot