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A GROUP OF FOUR GREEN GLAZED POTTERY VESSELS TWO JIZHOU TEA BOWLS
Han dynasty 12th/13th century
The first a small baluster jar with cupped rim covered with a well- The first fired with three cut-paper cartouches forming a black
preserved leaf green glaze (chipped); the second a three-section reserve pattern on the densely mottled ground of the interior well
bowl with loop handle (repaired), the third a deep conical bowl with while the exterior walls display and a more diffuse tortoise shell glaze
flat rim (chipped); and the fourth a model for a brazier with globular of amber and brown (repaired, repainted); the larger potted with
walls above a fire box (repaired and retouched), the latter models an indented band below the rim on the exterior wall a tortoise shell
showing degraded glaze layers. glaze of amber patches on the dark chocolate ground covering most
5in (12.7cm) height of baluster jar surfaces (chips, glaze degraded).
9in (23cm) width across three section bowl 4 1/8 and 4 5/8in (10.5 and 11.7cm) diameter
US$800 - 1,200 US$1,500 - 2,500
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A GROUP OF FIVE EARLY CERAMICS A GROUP OF EARLY CERAMICS
Han through Song dynasty Southern Song/Yuan dynasty
Including a green glazed cover with a finial in the shape of a dog Including three Longquan wares with degraded glazes: the first
head, covered in a heavily degraded green glaze; the second a Yue a brush washer with flared rim and canted walls raised on a tall
type green glazed stoneware jarlet of turtle shape and compressed wedged foot (hairline crack, chips); the second a shallow bowl
globular form; the third an amber and green glazed model of a boar; with flared rim above lotus petal shaped ribs molded to the exterior
the fourth a straw glazed wine tray with five attached wine cups; the walls; the third a vase with cupped rim, cylindrical neck and globular
last a white slip decorated bottle of compressed baluster form with body encircled by raised ribs (rim repaired and repainted); the last a
raised ribs, the creamy white slip layer and colorless glaze showing spotted qingbai glazed vase of elongated pear form with a square
russet staining from burial (chips, many with degraded glaze layers). cut rim, the iron brown spots applied against the thinly applied glaze
6in (15cm) diameter of wine tray (extensively degraded, glaze frits).
4in (10cm) height of baluster bottle 4 3/4 and 6 3/4in (12 and 17cm) diameter of bowls
5 7/8 and 4 3/4in (15 and 12cm) height of vases
US$1,000 - 1,500
US$800 - 1,200
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A GROUP OF POTTERY VESSELS 9297
Han dynasty A GROUP OF CIZHOU TYPE CERAMICS
The first a burnished baluster jar and associated cover supported on Liao/Jin dynasty
an everted lip and incised decoration on the tall shoulder highlighted The first a Liao bottle with a conical mouth, waisted neck and
with black pigment; the second a burnished black pottery jar with elongated oval body, the creamy white slip layer carved away to
lozenge shaped mouth and conforming neck and a pair of arching form a flowering peony spray band and the exposed fabric beneath
handles that resolve into raised spirals on the body walls; the third a the glaze burnt a dark brown in the firing (old chips); the second a
gray pottery jar with recessed ridge accenting the outside edge of the Song/Jin pillow of kidney bean form painted in iron brown with a
lip, painted with linear and spiral patterns in red and white, the linear chrysanthemum branch in flower in a quadrilobed frame on a creamy
and spiral spiral decoration painted in red and white on the waisted white slip ground (repaired, repainted).
neck and shoulder of the compressed globular body finished with a 9 3/4in (24.8cm) length of pillow
short foot (chips, soiling from burial). 12 1/2in (31.8cm) height of bottle
8, 5 1/2 and 6in (20.2, 14 and 15cm) height
US$1,000 - 1,500
US$800 - 1,200
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