AN OLIVE-GREEN GLAZED JAR

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AN OLIVE-GREEN GLAZED JAR
EASTERN HAN DYNASTY

The upper body freely incised with trailing amorphous designs incorporating impressed dots and bordered by raised, grooved bands, interrupted by a pair of strap handles surmounted by S-form appliques and suspending fixed rings, all under a glaze of olive-green tone, the unglazed neck and mouth rim encircled by combed bands and burnt dark reddish brown in the firing, as is the lower body just above the foot-- 16 7/8 in. (42.9cm.) high

Lot Essay

A jar of this type with similar handles and incised decoration but with a waisted, rather than flared neck, is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Mr. and Mrs. Allan G. Balch Collection, and was included in the exhibition Ice and Green Clouds, Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Musuem of Art, 1986, illustrated by Mino and Tsiang in the Catalogue, no. 13. Compare also the jar in the Idemitsu Museum illustrated in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 584, p. 156, and another from the collection of Fritz Low-Beer included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, Catalogue, no. 30