A RARE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY TRIPOD VESSEL, LIAN

EARLY POTTERY FIGURES AND WARES

细节

A RARE PAINTED GRAY POTTERY TRIPOD VESSEL, LIAN
HAN DYNASTY

The cylindrical body raised on three conical supports and encircled by a wide red band with traces of white pigment above and below, with a pair of acrobats doing handstands balanced atop the rim, their feet joined in the center to create an arch, some restoration--6½in. (16.5cm.) high

拍品专文

Two very similar lian are in the Musée Cernuschi, included in the exhibition, Chine connue et inconnue, October 1992-1993, Catalogue, p. 77, fig. 32a,b and were recently discussed by Marie-Thérèse Bobot, The Musée Cernuschi in Paris, New Acquisitions: 1982-92, Orientations, August 1992, p. 55, where the author states that "The only other example known, with a third acrobat balanced on top of the other two, was found in an Eastern Han tomb in Luoyang in Henan province in 1972 (Kaogu, 1975:2, pp 116-23)".
This lian is also illustrated by Annette L. Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone, Chinese Art in the C.C Wang Collection, 1988, no. 19B

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666j77 is consistent with the dating of this lot