A SMALL PAINTED GRAY POTTERY JAR

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A SMALL PAINTED GRAY POTTERY JAR
HAN DYNASTY

The rounded cylindrical sides painted in pale lavender, pale green, pink and white slip with two bands of foliate scroll reserved on a wide red band set between grooved and white-painted linear borders reserved on a black ground decorated with pale green diaper filled with white dots, with a dogtooth collar in white and red on the canted shoulder below the mouth rim (hair cracks, decoration rubbed)
5¾in. (14.6cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare the painted cylindrical jar of Han date in the Hoyt Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. I, no. 29

Compare, also, examples sold in these rooms June 4, 1992, lot 199 and December 3, 1992, lot 215