A GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY FOUR-STOREY TOWER AND COURTYARD

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A GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY FOUR-STOREY TOWER AND COURTYARD
HAN DYNASTY

Comprised of five separate sections: a gated courtyard modeled with a dog inside set in front of the largest of the four storeys of the house, centered by partially open doors with molded mask and ring handles, below a latticed window and a tiled roof terminating in a large florette at each corner, the progressively smaller upper storeys similarly modeled but with an open doorway, the roof of the uppermost storey surmounted by a bird finial, covered in a dark green glaze now degraded in areas to a golden iridescence, restoration--41 1/2 in. (105cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similarly modeled tower, also with latticed windows and florettes at the corners, in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, illustrated by Fontein and Wu, Unearthing China's Past, 1973, p. 113, no. 48