Lot 62: THREE SMALL IRIDESCENT GREEN-GLAZED VESSELS Han Dynasty

THREE SMALL IRIDESCENT GREEN-GLAZED VESSELS

Han Dynasty

Comprising a
hu-shaped jar with two molded bands to the body below a waisted neck and cup-shaped mouth; and two similar
guan-shaped jars with sloping shoulders and short necks, all three under iridescent green glazes and supported on short spurs. (3)


hu: 5 3/8in (13.8cm) high
guan: 5 1/4in (13.4cm) high

Two old chips to rim, chip to shoulder.

漢 綠釉陶罐三件



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1913-present




來源：

John Stewart Kennedy 基金，1913 年

大都會藝術博物館，1913 年迄今



For examples of a near identical
hu vase and a jar in the Gulbenkian Museum, University of Durham, see Ireneus Laszlo Legeza,
A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York/Toronto, 1972, p.2 and pl.II, nos.5 and 6, where the author references a similar jar in the Tenri Sanko-kan Museum, Nara illustrated in
Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 8, pl.69; and two similar
hu, one in the Thomas B. Clarke Collection and illustrated by Bernard Laufer,
Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, pl.XLIV, fig.3; and another comparable example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in
The C. B. Hoyt Collection, cat. no. 47.

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