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Chinese Ceramics and Paintings

Sold by the Yale University Art Gallery

For the Benefit of Acquisition Funds

(Lots 783–796)

SOLD BY THE YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ACQUISITION FUNDS
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THREE SMALL GREYISH-GREEN-GLAZED JARS
LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
The first jar, Changsha kilns, is of compressed globular form and covered with a
greyish-green glaze. The second jar, Changsha kilns, is an ovoid jar applied with
two small loop handles and covered with a pale olive-toned glaze and decorated
on the shoulder with two brown splashes. The third jar, possibly Hengshan kilns,
is covered with a greyish-green glaze.
The largest 4Ω in. (11.4 cm.) high (3)

$6,000-8,000
PROVENANCE:
John Hadley Cox (1913-2005) Collection, Washington, D.C.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, accessioned in 1940.
A comparable two-handled jar of slightly larger size (14 cm. high) dated Tang
dynasty, 9th-early 10th century, but with four brown splashes on the shoulder
rather than two, was sold Christie’s New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield
Ellsworth, Vol. VII, Chinese Works of Art, 18-27 May 2015, lot 8029.

拍賣所得將惠及耶魯大學美術館購藏基金
晚唐/五代 九/十世紀 灰青釉小罐三件
來源:
John Hadley Cox (1913-2005年) 珍藏, 華盛頓特區。
耶魯大學美術館, 紐海文, 康涅狄格州, 1940年入藏。

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