Page 72 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE V

Wine vase with baluster body, contracted neck and stem,
and spreading mouth and foot : flat base. Red pottery with
a wash of white slip on which designs have been painted in

unfired blue, red, and black pigments. On the body is a

broad belt painted with a sequence of hunted and hunting
figures realistically drawn. They include two horsemen

armed with bows, a demon figure, deer, tigers, hounds, and a

flying crane ; the contours of the ground and growing plants

are also indicated. The remaining ornament consists of painted

bands of formal pattern, and two groups of horizontal rings

cut on the wheel. The drawings are partly obliterated by the

deposit formed by burial.
As an early example of brushwork this vase has considerable

interest for the historian of Chinese painting; see An Intro-

duction to the Study of Chinese Painting by Arthur Waley, p. 38.
Probably fourth century. H. 13- 7".
In the British Museum.