HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

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TWO PAINTED GREY POTTERY VESSELS
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
One imitating a bronze flask, bianhu, raised on a flared rectangular foot with faceted corners, each side molded with a heart-shaped panel reserved on a red ground, with loop and ring handles on the shoulders flanking the neck; the other imitating a gilt-bronze or lacquer lian raised on three crouching bear supports and encircled by ribbed bands, applied with a pair of molded mask-and-ring handles, with red-painted interior
Flask 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high; lian 8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

These pottery forms replicate bronze vessels produced in the same period. A bronze bianhu of very similar form, but smaller, is illustrated in Les Bronzes Chinois - Le Guide du Connoisseur, Paris, 1980, p.120, pl.87.

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