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A jar, Han Dynasty. Jar of green-glazed red earthenware on a…
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A jar, Han Dynasty. Jar of green-glazed red earthenware on a short base with slender neck surmounted by a flared mouth. The globular body is decorated with two rows of ribbed bands. The mouth is also decorated with a carved band. The jar is covered in a finely crackled and partly decomposed silvery iridescent green lead glaze on the outside and within the neck, but not inside nor upon the base. The colour of the glaze on the interior of the mouth is greenish-yellow unlike the dark bluish-green of the outside. Three spur-marks on the rim suggest that either it was fired upside-down or that other vases were fired stacked on top of this one. The shape of this jar is that of an earlier bronze jar or hu, of which this object is clearly a ceramic imitation. Compare similar green-glazed ceramic vases in spirit of Han, Southeast Asian ceramic Society, 1991, and a virtually identical vase shown as no 6 of plate Il in the Malcolm Macdonald collection of Chinese ceramics, Legeza, Ireneus Laszlo, Oup. 1972. Provenance: The Dr. Francis De Hamel collection, height 15.5 cm, depth 12 cm
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