AN UNUSUALLY LARGE PAIR OF GREEN-GLAZED BALUSTER JARS, HU

HAN DYNASTY

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AN UNUSUALLY LARGE PAIR OF GREEN-GLAZED BALUSTER JARS, HU
han dynasty
Each boldly-potted jar incised around the body with parallel lines divided by two sprig-moulded taotie-mask handles suspending rings, the waisted neck rising to a wide everted rim with glaze drips, each supported on four spurs adhered to the glazed base, the interior with an amber glaze, the exterior covered in a deep olive-green glaze almost entirely turned to a pale green iridescent surface, minor foot and mouth rim chips
17½in. (44.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

For similar, but smaller examples see The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, fig.588; and another exhibited, Spirit of Han, Catalogue, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society and Sun Tree Publishing Limited, fig.161.

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