A pair of painted grey pottery cocoon jars

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AFTERNOON SESSION (LOTS 189 - 398) AT 2.00 P.M. EARLY POTTERY FROM THE HAN AND TANG DYNASTY (LOTS 189 - 209)

A pair of painted grey pottery cocoon jars

HAN DYNASTY

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A pair of painted grey pottery cocoon jars
Han dynasty
The body painted in shades of salmon pink, greyish pale green, dark red and white bands between scrolls and geometric patterns, linear bands encircling the shallow pedestal foot, the base of the short neck and the facetted, everted mouth rim, chips
33 cm. high (2)

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Lot Essay

A jar of this type excavated in Xinxiangxian, Henan province is illustrated in Historical Relics Unearthed in New China, Beijing, 1972, pl. 87. Compare a jar with very similar decoration illustrated by Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993, p. 4; and another included in the exhibition, Spirit of Han, Ceramics for the After-Life, Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore, 1991, no. 17.

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