AN UNUSUAL YUEYAO FROG-MOLDED JAR

YUEYAO

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AN UNUSUAL YUEYAO FROG-MOLDED JAR
3RD/4TH CENTURY

The compressed lower body encircled by narrow grooves and applied on the shoulder with the head, legs and tail of a frog, with incised details and iron-brown spots on the frog's eyes as well as on the rim of the tall, cylindrical neck encircled by further grooves and set with a pair of loop handles, covered inside and out with a grayish-green glaze extensivley degraded to a buff color, the slightly concave base unglazed and burnt dark brick red in the firing
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare a group of similar jars illustrated by Mitsuru Uragami in Animal Farm in Yue Ware, Tokyo, 1992, nos. 117-124. See, also, a related jar illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1982, p. 228, no. 234