Page 56 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE I

Wine-jar with depressed globular body, high neck, and
slightly expanded mouth : high foot, slighdy spreading, and

flat beneath. On the sides are two tiger-masks in applied

relief with ring handles (in the style of a bronze) enclosing a
pattern of raised dots. Otherwise the plain surface is relieved
only by groups of horizontal wheel-made rings on the neck

and body. Red pottery with leaf- green glaze encrusted with

golden and silvery iridescence due to prolonged burial and
consequent decomposition of the glaze. Drops of glaze have
formed on the mouth-rim suggesting that it was fired upside
down.

Han dynasty. H. 17- 5".
In the possession of Mr. O. C. Raphael.