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AN UNGLAZED STONEWARE STORAGE JAR AND LID A GROUP OF THREE SMALL GLAZED STONEWARE
Ly-Tran dynasties, 12th-14th century CONTAINERS
The ovoid jar formed with a concave collar, with lotus petal bands and 13th-15th centuries
roller marks impressed on the walls above a saw-town line of sculpted The first a dish molded with a petal rim and chrysanthemum petals
petals that encircle the tall foot ring with pierced details, the collar across the shallow well, incised lines radiating outward form a narrow
covered by the domed lid impressed with the same lotus petal and foot and recessed base, five spur marks visible in the gray-green glaze
roller bands surrounding a waisted circular finial. covering the well and most of the exterior walls; the second a bowl of
7 1/8in (18cm) height overall compressed globular form incised with string bands above and below
a band with C-shaped punches impressed into the exterior walls,
$1,500 - 2,500 the dark olive-brown glaze stopping above the tall foot and recessed
base; the third a deep cup of chrysanthemum flower shape with a rim
Published conforming to the petals molded into the walls, a cream colored glaze
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten stopping unevenly along the foot, leaving the pad and recessed base
Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 82, no. unglazed.
5. 6 3/8, 4 3/8 and 4in (16.3, 11 and 10.3cm) diameter

For a jar with a similar concave collar, impressed lotus leaf band and $1,000 - 1,500
roller marks on the body but supported on a solid foot ring, see John
Stevenson and John Guy, Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, For two dishes of chrysanthemum flower shape similar to the front
1997, p. 217, no. 84. and back surfaces of this lot, see John Stevenson and John Guy,
Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p.272, no. 183 (as
13th/14th century). The chrysanthemum cup in this lot seems to be
identical in shape and size to one labeled as a wine cup, 14th/15th
century (4in [10.16cm] diameter) in the collection of the Minneapolis
Institute of Art, Gift of Funds from Cliff and Sue Roberts, 92.41.1.

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