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A LARGE GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY JAR Animal-mask ornaments were very popular from the Warring States
Warring States Period period to the Han dynasty, and were executed on various media
Finely potted with a compressed globular body raised on a tapering including bronze, lacquer and pottery. On the shoulders, two modelled
foot, moulded with a band of raised vertical ribs around the body, taotie mask fittings are applied to imitate a bronze example which was
rising to a high shoulder decorated with a similar band of raised ribs usually attached to lacquer ware as lug handles. Compare with a pair
encircling a short rim flanked by a pair of taotie masks holding loose of silver taotie mask fittings, late Eastern Zhou or Warring States, in this
rings, covered overall by a thin pale olive green glaze. catalogue, Lot 2. A very similar pottery jar, Warring States, is illustrated
42cm (16 1/2in) diam. in ‘Highlights of Chinese Ceramics’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bulletin, Fall 1975, v.33, no.3. Compare also with another pottery jar
£6,000 - 10,000 in the Shanghai Museum, of which the lugs are in the form of loop
CNY54,000 - 89,000 handles instead of taotie masks, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Early
Wares: Prehistoric to tenth century, Taipei, 1991, p.83. A third jar of
戰國 原始青瓷豎條紋罐 similar shape but with different handles is illustrated by Wang Tao,
Mirroring China’s Past, Chicago, 2018, pl.8.
Provenance:
Stephen K.C. Lo, Hong Kong The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test
Jean-Yves Ollivier Collection no.P118j35, dated 1 August 2018, is consistent with the dating of
this lot.
來源：
香港古董商魯國銓先生舊藏 器身所塑的直棱紋應為模仿青銅器紋飾，詳細可比對本專場拍品23
歐宗易先生珍藏 號，西周青銅龍紋牲耳簋，器身同樣飾有直棱紋。而器肩所置的獸面
耳則流行於戰國時代至漢代，亦可見於當代銅器、漆器以及陶瓷，相
Based on the glassy glaze of the present lot, this jar was probably 似例子可參見本專場推出的一對戰國時代銀獸面鋪首拍品2號。
fired in a dragon kiln in south China. The glaze in most cases was
applied by the dipping method, which could be proved by the swag- 紐約大都會博物館所藏一件相似的戰國陶罐，可作比較，載於
like contour to its lower belly. The form of this jar is thought to have 「Highlights of Chinese Ceramics（中國陶瓷薈萃）」，《大都會博物
originated from bronze vessels such as the lei, as a substitute for more 館簡報》，1975年秋，第33期，編號3。另外比對上海博物館所藏一
expensive bronze ware used for burial practices. 例，形制相似，但其罐耳呈圓環狀而非饕餮面，載於劉良佑著，《中
國歷代陶瓷鑑賞：史前至五代》，台北，1991年，頁83。最後一例，
The vertical ribs on the body appear to have been inspired by motifs 器身呈類似形狀，但罐耳同樣塑不同形狀，載於汪濤著，《Mirroring
found on bronze vessels as well. Compare with the ribbed body of a China’s Past》，芝加哥，2018年，圖8。
bronze gui, Western Zhou dynasty, in this catalogue, Lot 23.
Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（2018年8月1日，編
號P118j35）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。

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