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    FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

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    18 September 2003

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    Lot 276

    A LARGE NORTHERN THAI BROWN AND OLIVE-GLAZED BALUSTER STORAGE JAR

    15TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 14,340

    Estimate

    USD 15,000 - USD 20,000

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    A LARGE NORTHERN THAI BROWN AND OLIVE-GLAZED BALUSTER STORAGE JAR
    15th century
    The body and neck encircled by bands of impressed decoration covered by a thin olive-toned glaze repeated on the interior, in contrast to the dark brown glaze on the cup-shaped mouth, three snail appliques and the broad band within raised borders on the shoulder
    17½in (44.5cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    A related, less elaborate storage jar glazed entirely in a thin, olive-toned glazed, with the exception of two brown snail-like bosses at the shoulders, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, was included in the exhibition, Southeast Asian Ceramics, Ninth Through Seventeenth Centuries, The Asia Society, illustrated frontispiece, no. 48. Almost entirely plain, this example is decorated with two bands of incised zigzag lines at the shoulder. The catalogue entry states that the jar was excavated at Kamphaeng, Phet, Thailand in 1961 and contained several hundred small, cast-metal figures of Buddha.

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