Page 10 - Bonham's Asian Art London November 12, 2015

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A YUEYAO JAR AND COVER
2 Han Dynasty
8 | BONHAMS The globular body finely incised with two bands
comprising multiple birds, divided by two raised
double lines above a band of combed motifs, the
sides flanked by two flat animal mask handles,
the domed cover incised with concentric lines, all
covered by a thin pale olive green glaze except for
the lower portion of the body.
32cm (12 1/1in) high (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
HK$35,000 - 59,000
CNY29,000 - 48,000

漢 越窯飛鳥紋鋪首耳蓋罐

The jar compares closely with a neckless jar in
the collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts,
illustrated by W.Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics from
China, London, 1991, fig.89, p.139, and the wine
vessel included in the collection of the Ashmolean
Museum, illustrated by M.Tregear, Catalogue of
Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, 1976, fig.11.

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A GREEN-GLAZED ‘IMMORTAL ISLAND’ JAR
AND COVER
Eastern Han Dynasty
The cylindrical body moulded with a frieze of animals
in a continuous mountainous landscape, the domed
cover shaped as mountain peaks with further
animals, supported on three bear feet, all beneath a
dark green glaze falling short of the base and interior
of the cover.
28cm (11in) high (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
HK$35,000 - 59,000
CNY29,000 - 48,000

東漢 青釉三足博山爐

Compare a similar jar included in the exhibition,
Spirit of Han, Ceramics for the After-Life, Southeast
Asian Ceramics Society, Singapore, 1991, no.123,
p.132.