Four very rare Chinese inscribed pottery jars, Han dynasty, ...

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£3,000 - £5,000

Four very rare Chinese inscribed pottery jars, Han dynasty, with Oxford TL Test, each with a fine-grained pale grey pottery semi-spherical body with short neck and flared mouth, flat base with a bevelled edge, inscription in red pigment, the characters being in the traditional/archaic form and not easy to translate accurately, each jar is 13cm high, 15.5cm and 16cm diameter

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Four very rare Chinese inscribed pottery jars, Han dynasty, with Oxford TL Test, each with a fine-grained pale grey pottery semi-spherical body with short neck and flared mouth, flat base with a bevelled edge, inscription in red pigment, the characters being in the traditional/archaic form and not easy to translate accurately, each jar is 13cm high, 15.5cm and 16cm diameter
This extremely rare set of pottery vessels, jars or bottles, was made during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). They are very fine quality. They are in good condition with one jar having just a minor surface chip to the mouth and the others with only minor repairs to the vulnerable mouth edges. Each jar comes in a custom-made lined box. One representative jar from this set has been tested by Oxford Authentications, the ONLY testers of ancient pottery accepted by ALL major dealers, auction rooms and museums worldwide, with a result of a date of manufacture of "between 1500 and 2400 years ago". We show also the Thermoluminescence Analysis Report that will accompany these jars.