A pair of painted grey pottery cocoon jars , HAN DYNASTY

Sale 2660

CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART

Amsterdam

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3 May 2005

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Lot 189
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

Price realised

EUR 3,600

Estimate

EUR 800 - EUR 1,200

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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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AFTERNOON SESSION
(LOTS 189 - 398)
AT 2.00 P.M.

EARLY POTTERY FROM THE HAN AND TANG DYNASTY
(LOTS 189 - 209)
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Lot 189 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

Recommended features

‘Astonishing for its overarching quality’ — The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection

‘Truth comes when one is totally involved in the act of painting’ — Red Square (1959) by Helen Frankenthaler

Lot 189
AFTERNOON SESSION
(LOTS 189 - 398)
AT 2.00 P.M.

EARLY POTTERY FROM THE HAN AND TANG DYNASTY
(LOTS 189 - 209)