LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

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THREE SMALL GREYISH-GREEN-GLAZED JARS
LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
The first jas, Changsha kilns, is of compressed globular form and covered with a greyish-green glaze. The second jar, Changsha kilns, is an ovoid jar applied with two small loop handles and covered with a pale olive-toned glaze and decorated on the shoulder with two brown splashes. The third jar, possibly Hengshan kilns, is covered with a greyish-green glaze.
The largest 4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) high

Provenance

John Hadley Cox (1913-2005) Collection, Washington, D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, accessioned in 1940.

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Lot Essay

A comparable two-handled jar of slightly larger size (14 cm. high) dated Tang dynasty, 9th-early 10th century, but with four brown splashes on the shoulder rather than two, was sold Christie’s New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Vol. VII, Chinese Works of Art, 18-27 May 2015, lot 8029.

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