HAN DYNASTY

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A grey pottery cocoon vase
Han dynasty
The cocoon shaped body raised on a splayed foot and supporting a short cylindrical neck with a flat rim, painted with pale shades of milky orange-red lavender-blue, green and cream with archaistic dragon motifs between vertical deep red borders
29 cm. high

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Lot Essay

A jar of this type excavated in Xinxiangxian, Henan province is illustrated in Historical Relics Unearthed in New China, Beijing, 1972, pl. 87. Compare a jar with very similar decoration illustrated by Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993, p. 4; and another included in the exhibition, Spirit of Han, Ceramics for the After-Life, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1991, no. 17

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