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A RARE SMALL RED-PAINTED BLACK-LACQUERED BLACK POTTERY JAR, HU
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
The black-lacquered jar is raised on a tall foot and encircled by two triple bow-string
bands that border a band of geometric decoration painted in red on the shoulder, all
below further geometric decoration painted on the neck.
4√ in. (12.4 cm.) high
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1982.
Small painted black-lacquered black pottery vessels and objects of this type were
made in imitation of inlaid bronze prototypes. A group of such vessels and objects
said to be from Hui Xian, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Arts of the Chou
Dynasty, Stanford University Museum, 1958, pp. 46 and 47, nos. 87-89 and 93-94.
See, also, the similarly decorated ear cup, dou and mirror illustrated in Sekai Toji
Zenshu, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1955, p. 252, fgs. 248 ( ear cup) and 249 (dou and cover), and pl.
57 (mirror).
戰國 彩繪黑漆陶壺
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