Katniss Xu
Business Coordinator / Senior Sale Coordinator
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARK S. PRATT, WASHINGTON, DC
Lot 244
A CHANGSHA JAR AND A BROWN-GLAZED JAR Tang dynasty and later
18 – 28 June 2023, 15:00 PDT
Online, Los AngelesSold for US$384 inc. premium
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A CHANGSHA JAR AND A BROWN-GLAZED JAR
Tang dynasty and later
The first, a cylindrical jar with a short neck and rolled rim, the rounded shoulder supporting a pair of loop handles, the pale greenish-brown glaze highlighted with dark iron and pale green dots around the body and stopping irregularly above the unglazed concave base; the second, a vase of elongated form decorated with vertical 'ribs', the shoulder set with four lug handles below a grooved neck and a rolled mouth, the thin caramel-brown glaze covering the interior and exterior stopping just above the neatly pared foot; together with a small Tang-style circular bronze mirror cast in deep relief with a squirrel and grape vine pattern.
5 1/2in (14cm); 7 1/2in (19cm) high; 3 3/4in (9.5cm) diam. (3).
The first, a cylindrical jar with a short neck and rolled rim, the rounded shoulder supporting a pair of loop handles, the pale greenish-brown glaze highlighted with dark iron and pale green dots around the body and stopping irregularly above the unglazed concave base; the second, a vase of elongated form decorated with vertical 'ribs', the shoulder set with four lug handles below a grooved neck and a rolled mouth, the thin caramel-brown glaze covering the interior and exterior stopping just above the neatly pared foot; together with a small Tang-style circular bronze mirror cast in deep relief with a squirrel and grape vine pattern.
5 1/2in (14cm); 7 1/2in (19cm) high; 3 3/4in (9.5cm) diam. (3).
Footnotes
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
Provenance:
Hei Hung Lu, Hong Kong (the bronze mirror)
For an excavated Changsha jar now in the Yangzhou Museum, of similar shape and glaze but larger in size and with more elaborate brown and green dotted decoration, see Li Zhiyan et. al, Chinese Ceramics form the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty, 2010, p. 233, pl. 5.39.
