A YUEYAO CHICKEN-HEAD EWER

EASTERN JIN DYNASTY (317-420)

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A YUEYAO CHICKEN-HEAD EWER
EASTERN JIN DYNASTY (317-420)
The globular body with a narrow groove on the shoulder interrupted by a pair of faceted loop handles, a curved handle and the short chicken-head spout, covered overall with a glaze of greyish-green tone with brown iron-spot highlights, the unglazed concave base burnt red in the firing
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar ewer included in the exhibition, Art of the Six Dynasties, China House Gallery, New York, 29 October 1975 - 1 February 1976, p. 30, no. 8, where A. Juliano notes that this type of ewer began appearing in the fourth century, "reflecting a new direction" - of vessel forms moving away from a "dependence on Han bronze prototypes".

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