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121 The ceramic craftsmen of Yue ware were inventive particularly during
A rare Yueyao frog-shaped water pot the environment of political unrest during the Jin Dynasty. Potters
Western Jin Dynasty created vessels in a number of striking animal shapes, including frogs
The compressed globular pot raised on a short spreading foot, as the present lot.
crisply moulded with beady eyes on the head, warts and legs on the
body, covered overall in a pale greyish-green glaze. Two very similarly modeled frog-shaped water pots, one in the
8cm wide Shanghai Museum and another in the Zhejiang Province Cultural Relics
Bureau, Jinhua City, are illustrated in Zhongguo mei shu fen lei quan
HK$120,000 - 200,000 ji: The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics Vol.4, Shanghai, 2000,
US$15,000 - 26,000 no.131 and 132.
西晉 越窯青釉蛙形水丞 水丞呈蛙形，肩部飾凸出鼓釘紋，並塑蛙首及四足一尾。蛙首上昂，
雙目圓瞪。同時施青釉，釉色偏黃。整器造型可愛，憨態可掬。
上海博物館及浙江省文物局分別有一件青釉蛙形水丞，與本器類似，
見《中國美術分類全集：陶瓷全集（4）三國、兩晉、南北朝》，
上海，2000年，編號131及132。
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