A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FACETED JAR AND COVER, FANGHU

WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)

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A PAINTED GREY POTTERY FACETED JAR AND COVER, FANGHU
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 8)
The faceted body and flared pedestal foot painted with bands of scrolls and on two sides with taotie mask and ring handles below a band of pendent blades on the neck, the faceted cover pierced with four small holes for the insertion of metal scrolls (now missing) below the quatrefoil motif in the center, all in red, white and pink pigment
23 in. (58.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Howard Hollis & Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1957.
Exhibited
The Columbia University Exhibition of Three Thousand Years of the Ceramic Art and Ancient Sculpture of China from the Sackler Collections, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, 11 November 1962 - 18 June 1963.
3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1987.

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