HAN DYNASTY

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A Yueyao storage jar
Han Dynasty
The globular body glazed and encircled around the upper half with three raised grooved ribs, interrupted by a pair of taotie and humanoid loop handles below a broad flatted rim, the upper section covered with a crackled glaze of olive-green tone exposing the lower part burnt reddish brown in the firing, old very superficial chips
36 cm. high

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CHINESE EARLY CERAMICS AND POTTERY

Lot Essay

This type of ware represents the earliest celadon ceramics in China and was made from the late Western Han till the Eastern Han period. Similar jars were excavated in towns near Nanjing, Hangzhou and Wuhu. For a similar example see The Freer Gallery of Art, K.R. Tsian, Glazed Stonewares of the Hand Dynasty Artibus Asiae, 1978, no.9.

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