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拍品 1107
A LARGE PAINTED GREY POTTERY PEAR-SHAPED JAR AND COVER, HU
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, LATE 2ND/EARLY 1ST CENTURY BC
已結束2011年3月24日
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USD 3,500
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This large painted jar and cover are quite similar in size and decoration to one illustrated by d'Argencé in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Treasures from the Avery Brundage Collection, The Asia Society, New York, 1968, no. 56. Another is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 1, p. 60, no. 70. The author notes that P.C. Sturman in 'Celestial Journeys - Meditations on (and in) Han Dynasty Painted Pots at the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Orientations, May 1988, pp. 54-67, interprets the cloud motif as the "celestial vapours through which the deceased would travel on their way to immortality", and illustrates a similar jar and cover, figs. 6-6b.