CHINESE YUE-TYPE STRAW-GLAZED FOUR-HANDLED JAR
SIX DYNASTIES
Estimate: £2,500 - £3,500
Auction: 08 November 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
六朝 越州窯米黃釉四繫盤口壺 帶日本木盒
the wide shoulder of the bulbous body attached with four upturned looped handles, the waisted neck surmounted with a disc-shaped opening, covered overall in a transparent creamy green glaze with yellowish tone, pooling at the concave parts with dark green colour, the base unglazed revealing the stoneware body, with a Japanese wooden tomobako
Dimensions
24.5cm high
Provenance
Formerly in a private Japanese collection
前日本私人舊藏
Footnote
A comparable Yue-type four-handled jar dated to the Western Jin dynasty, is in the collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, https://www.fujibi.or.jp/collection/artwork/01441/. Another Yue-type handled jar with closely comparable form but further decorated with combed pattern and brown glaze, dated to the Eastern Jin dynasty, is in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/mu/frontend/pg/m/article/id/CI00004871.