This superbly-shaped and very well-made bottle vase, was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from a fairly highly-fired dense grey pottery and imitates a bronze version, pottery examples, of course, being much less expensive to produce. Such vases are generally referred to as "garlic necked vases". On the base and just inside the m... Click for details
Fine & Very Rare Tall Chinese Han Dynasty Glazed Jar
This attractive pottery jar was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is coated in a finely-crackled green glaze that has, in places, acquired a silvery iridescence, a result of exposure to moisture during its long burial. There are bands of incised lines surrounding the body at the shoulder and waist. There are minor kiln scars and ... Click for details
Excellent Tall Chinese Neolithic Xiajiadian Culture Li Tripod
This superb tall pottery vessel was made some 4,000 years ago by people of the Xiajiadian culture (c. 2300 - 1600 BC) from Inner Mongolia. This vessel is particularly characteristic of this Neolithic culture with its wide rim, partly hollow udder-shaped legs and carefully constructed body. In places on the finely burnished surface are chalky calcium-like de... Click for details
Large Chinese Neolithic Machang Painted Pottery Jar
This pottery jar was made over 4,000 years ago during the Machang Phase (c. 2300 - 2000 BC) of the Majiayao culture, also known as the Gansu-Yangshao culture, from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. The upper body and neck have been decorated with various geometric patterns using a mineral-based pigment, prior to firing in the Neolithic kiln. It has been fired to... Click for details
Rare Chinese Warring States Tiger Ewer with Oxford TL Test
This very rare pottery vessel was made over 2,000 years ago during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC). It is an elongated ewer in the form of a tiger. Much of the original red and white surface pigments remain.
As with many of our finer items, we have had this vessel tested by... Click for details
This large and impressive pottery model of a granary was made around 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). It is made from a red pottery, is "heavily-potted" and particularly sturdy. Similar examples are well-known, but we have never previously seen one quite this shape with its "bulging" sides; it is also unusually large. It stands on three feet an... Click for details
Large Chinese Han Dynasty Amber Glazed Hu Jar
with Oxford TL Test
This impressive pottery jar of unusually large size was made some 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). Similar examples tend to be coated in a green glaze; those with an amber glaze are particularly rare. It is decorated with various incised bands that surround the body with two moulded taotie mask handles on opposite sides at the ... Click for details
This really is a very interesting book and invaluable for any serious collector of ancient Chinese ceramics. It is essentially a catalogue published in 1981 by the Oriental Ceramic Society of an exhibition lent by the People's Republic of China that was held at the British Museum, London in 1980.
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Rare Yue glazed lugged jar with dark olive splashes on the side, from Zhejiang circa Jin Dynasty (265 CE – 420 CE). Some minor chips on outer edge of glazed mouthrim and fritting on one lug, otherwise good condition. H: 14.5cm/5.8in and D: 15cm/5.9in.
