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TWO EAR CUPS

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TWO EAR CUPS
HAN DYNASTY

Each of oval form with elongated, ear-shaped handles, one a lacquer example, the sides decorated in red with a band of concentric semi-circles set between linear borders, below a narrow band of foliate scroll at the rim, all in red and blackish red reserved on an ochre ground, the interior decorated in the center with an oval medallion of linear scroll, the walls above painted red; the other a green-glazed pottery example copying a lacquer prototype, the decoration molded in thread relief under a dark green glaze continuing into the interior and over the base (restoration and cracks to lacquer cup, chips to pottery cup)
5½ and 4¼in. (12.7 and 10.8cm.) long (2)

拍品專文

Compare the lacquer ear cups decorated in the same linear manner and palette, but with a different design, and dated by inscription to A.D. 4, in the British Museum, illustrated by William Watson in The Handbook to the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities, 1963, p. 48b. For a green-glazed pottery example with decoration in thread relief see the ear cup included in the exhibition, Spirit of Han, Ceramics from the After-Life, Singapore, 1991, Catalogue, no. 129