LATE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 8TH-7TH CENTURY BC

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A Rare Small Olive-Glazed Stoneware Jarlet
Late Western Zhou dynasty, 8th-7th century BC
The shoulder of the compressed body incised with a band of diagonal lines and applied with two S-scroll handles, covered inside and out with a thin olive glaze; together with, a small grey pottery cocoon jar, late Warring States period/Qin dynasty, the ovoid body carved with concentric linear bands, raised on a small low foot ring, the surface burnished to black; and a small dark grey pottery hollow-modeled figure of a seated owl, Han dynasty
Jarlet 3¾in. (9.5cm.) across; cocoon jar 5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) long; owl 2¼in. (5.7cm.) high, two boxes and stands (3)

Provenance

Cocoon jar: Mathias Komor, New York, August 1944.
Pottery owl: Mathias Komor, New York, September 1943.

Lot Essay

The olive-glazed jarlet is similar in form to an example with cover, and with small loop handles, in addition to the S-form appliqués, on the shoulder, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, 2, Xia, Shang Zhou, Chunqiu, Zhanguo, Shanghai, 2000, no. 151.
Cocoon jars with a similar rim were in use in Gansu province as early as the late Warring States period and the Qin dynasty. See Wenwu, 1989:2, pl. I, fig.3.

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