A KHMER BROWN-GLAZED COMPRESSED EWER WITH LOOP HANDLE
A KHMER BROWN-GLAZED COMPRESSED EWER WITH LOOP HANDLE

12TH CENTURY

細節
A KHMER BROWN-GLAZED COMPRESSED EWER WITH LOOP HANDLE
12th century
With incised vertical panels on the body below the double ridged band, tiny spout and broad ribbed loop handle abstractly formed as a bird on the shoulder, covered with a dark brown glaze continuing over the rolled mouth rim
8½in. (21.6cm.) diam.
來源
Charlotte Horstmann and Gerald Godfrey, Ltd.

拍品專文

Similar ewers of this pleasing shape are illustrated by H. Fujiwara, Khmer Ceramics from the Kamratan Collection, Oxford, 1990, nos. 84, 85, and p. 51 where the author notes that these lenticular pots are a unique Khmer ceramic form.