Lot Essay
A similar example was sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 133. See also Susan Valenstein, ......., p. 41, for a discussion of these wares, and pl. 35 for an illustrated example
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A FINE GREEN-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR, well potted with a full rounded body and small mouth, the shoulder with three horizontal ribs, two animal-mask loop handles, and incised with a continuous band of birds and fish, the upper part of the jar covered in a lustrous green glaze pooling at the ribs and stopping in drips at the waist revealing the reddish-brown body, Han Dynasty
Details
A FINE GREEN-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR, well potted with a full rounded body and small mouth, the shoulder with three horizontal ribs, two animal-mask loop handles, and incised with a continuous band of birds and fish, the upper part of the jar covered in a lustrous green glaze pooling at the ribs and stopping in drips at the waist revealing the reddish-brown body, Han Dynasty
30cm. high
30cm. high