Lot Essay
Compare a similar hu with amber glaze illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 189
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AN UNUSUAL GREEN-SPLASHED AMBER-GLAZED RED POTTERY HU
HAN DYNASTY
Molded with a pair of taotie mask handles suspending fixed rings and decorated with bands of incised lines, covered inside and out in a lustrous reddish-brown glaze splashed with dark green on one side and on the interior of the neck, minor rim restoration--13 1/2in. (34.4cm.) high
HAN DYNASTY
Molded with a pair of taotie mask handles suspending fixed rings and decorated with bands of incised lines, covered inside and out in a lustrous reddish-brown glaze splashed with dark green on one side and on the interior of the neck, minor rim restoration--13 1/2in. (34.4cm.) high