Lot 16
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A RARE LARGE YUE YAO FUNERARY JAR, the globular body applied with birds, tigers, and phoenixes, the upper section modelled as a tower with sloping roofs supported on recumbent beasts, four small jars with windows and sloping roofs applied with birds set at each corner and the neck with seated musicians below tiers of birds, the upper roof with raised tile ridges, all under a grey-green glaze (chips to extremities), Six Dynasties

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A RARE LARGE YUE YAO FUNERARY JAR, the globular body applied with birds, tigers, and phoenixes, the upper section modelled as a tower with sloping roofs supported on recumbent beasts, four small jars with windows and sloping roofs applied with birds set at each corner and the neck with seated musicians below tiers of birds, the upper roof with raised tile ridges, all under a grey-green glaze (chips to extremities), Six Dynasties
43cm. high

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For a discussion of similar funerary jars see Mino and Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds, pp. 74-77. The authors note that the storage jars at the upper level are symbols of wealth and abundance. Another example is illustrated by Medley, The Art of the Chinese Potter, fig.42

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