A RARE STRAW-GLAZED RED POTTERY CARVED OVOID BOTTLE

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A RARE STRAW-GLAZED RED POTTERY CARVED OVOID BOTTLE
FIVE DYNASTIES

The sides carved in a linear technique with a broad band of overlapping petals rising from the foot and repeated in a narrower band on the high shoulder, the reel-shaped neck separated from the tall, slightly flared mouth rim by a thin flange, covered with a straw-color glaze suffused with fine crackling applied over a buff slip, the interior of the neck and the base similarly glazed (rim chips, glaze flaking)
10 1/8in. (25.6cm.) high, box