Lot 810
810
A SMALL BRONZE JAR AND COVER
A SMALL BRONZE JAR AND COVER
A SMALL BRONZE JAR AND COVER
A SMALL BRONZE JAR AND COVER
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A SMALL BRONZE JAR AND COVER

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Details
A SMALL BRONZE JAR AND COVER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The ovoid jar has a flat base and the high shoulders are cast with three double lines. The slightly domed cover has matching double line bands and is surmounted by a bud finial. Both have a scattered reddish-brown patina with areas of malachite encrustation.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4623.

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Lot Essay

A similar small bronze jar of this form, without a cover, in the collection of Kubosō Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, is illustrated in Chugoku no kyōdō: rokuro hiki no seidōki (Tin-Bronze of China: Bronzes of the Potter’s Wheel), Osaka, 1999, p. 45, no. 88.

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