A WELL-PAINTED DARK GRAY POTTERY COCOON JAR

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A WELL-PAINTED DARK GRAY POTTERY COCOON JAR
HAN DYNASTY

The body painted in shades of salmon pink, pale gray-green, dark red and white with bands of decoration, the wide bands decorated with scrolls, the narrow bands with geometric patterns, with linear bands encircling the shallow pedestal foot, the base of the short neck and the faceted, everted mouth rim (some rubbing of pigment)
13in. (33cm.) long, box

Lot Essay

A jar of this type was excavated in Xinxiangxian, Henan province, and is illustrated in Historical Relics Unearthed in New China, Beijing, 1972, pl. 87. Compare a jar with very similar decoration, illustrated by Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993, p. 4; and another included in the exhibition, Spirit of Han, Ceramics for the After-Life, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1991, Catalogue, no. 17

Similar examples have sold in these rooms, December 2, 1986, lot 24 and another from the Scheinman Collection, March 23, 1995, lot 21