A GREEN AND AMBER-GLAZED RED POTTERY TRIPOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING

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A GREEN AND AMBER-GLAZED RED POTTERY TRIPOD VESSEL AND COVER, DING
HAN DYNASTY

The flat-shouldered, globular body encircled by a rib band and raised on three cabriole legs, with a pair of outwardly curved, pierced strap handles, the shallow, domed cover molded in the center with two crossed fish flanked by geese in flight, within a raised band interrupted by three conical bosses and further surrounded by a wide band of abstract linear scroll and a narrow dogtooth border, covered inside and out with a dark green glaze now altered to a gold and silver iridescence, interior of cover glazed amber with a pooled splash of green in the center
8 3/4in. (22.2cm.) across handles

Lot Essay

The shape of this tripod vessel is based on bronze ding prototypes. A number of green-glazed pottery examples, with pairs of crossed fish molded on the cover were included in the exhibition, Spirit of Han, Ceramics for the After-Life, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1991, Catalogue, nos. 110, 111 and 113. Compare, also, the vessel included in the exhibition, Selected Pieces From the Collections of The ROC Society of Art Collectors, Taipei, 1989, Catalogue, p. 23, no. 7