R28,000
A CHINESE GREY POTTERY "COCOON" JAR, HAN DYNASTY, 206 BC - 220 AD
The ridged, spreading pedestal foot carved with a series of grooved bands, rising to the cocoon-shaped body incised with concentric bands evenly spaced across the burnished body, the short neck encircled by two bow-string bands terminating in a slightly convex flaring rim
cf. Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art, Sale 3988, Lot 236, 21 March 2000, New York
Lot Essay
A jar of this type with red-brown lacquer decoration was excavated from a Western Han tomb at Yinque Shan, Linyi county, and illustrated in Kaogu 1975:6, pl. 6, fig. 3.
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