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Description
Title: Covered Vessel.
Period: Han Dynasty, circa 206 B.C. - 220 A.D.
Construction/Material: Earthenware/Terracotta.
Description: Offered is a lidded bowl, …
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Title: Covered Vessel.
Period: Han Dynasty, circa 206 B.C. - 220 A.D.
Construction/Material: Earthenware/Terracotta.
Description: Offered is a lidded bowl, features brown relief banded girdles over a bluish-gray ground, gray terracotta, interspersed with some areas of white and pink pigment. The glaze retains areas of a defined design atop, less so around the lower vessel that is for the most part exfoliated, sporadic hardened earth incrustations adhere to the inner sides of the cover and rim. Felt bumpers added to the bottom.
Measures: 8 D x 6 H inches.
About the vessel: The type represented by this vessel is called tou. or pien tou. Considered a Tazza or Sacrificial Vessel, an interesting feature regarding this type is the unity of form of two parts taken as a whole, and of each taken separately. The vessel is composed, so to speak, of two perfect bowls, one inverted over the other, and would seem to be the prototype of the modern covered porcelain teacup. The one part is not imaginable without the other; whereas in other types of covered jars the vessel retains its peculiar form even without the cover, which is added merely for utility's sake. The bowl, from about the middle part, gradually narrows towards the base. The inner edge of the flat rim of the bowl is surrounded by another low vertical rim curving inward, over which the cover fits. Both cover and bowl are moulded separately and were turned on the wheel. The curved cover is somewhat convex with a circular rim at the top and is similarly mirrored over a similar footed base. The girdle ornament appears representative of the Zhou or Chou dynasty. (Laufer, Berthold. Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty. Rutland: C.E. Tuttle Co., Inc., 1962)
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- Dimensions
- 8ʺW × 8ʺD × 4ʺH
- Styles
- Chinese
- Period
- 15th Century & Earlier
- Country of Origin
- China
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Earthenware
- Felt
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gray
- Condition Notes
- Very good; wear commensurate with age and use; e.g. chip at rim of lower base, loss of pigment, rubbed surfaces, … moreVery good; wear commensurate with age and use; e.g. chip at rim of lower base, loss of pigment, rubbed surfaces, hardened earth incrustations adhere to inner sides of the cover and rim. See images. A beautiful piece. less
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