A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY 'HILL' JAR AND COVER, HAN DYNASTY
China, 206 BC to 220 AD. The cylindrical jar is raised on three bear supports and molded around the exterior with a hunting scene of figures and various animals between a pair of mask and ring handles. The cover is modeled with mountain peaks interspersed by further animals surrounding a central peak. The exterior is covered in a rich green glaze, transmuting to amber toward the base, and splashed with ochre to the interior of the jar, the unglazed interior of the cover with green splashes.

Provenance: By repute from an old German private collection, assembled prior to 1990, and thence by descent.
Condition: Commensurate with age. Some wear and firing flaws. Small chips and glaze losses here and there, some with minor touchups. The interior rim of the cover with a bruise and an associated hairline reaching the central peak, with old minor fills and touchups.

Weight: 3,080 g
Dimensions: Height 24.7 cm

Literature comparison: Compare a closely related green-glazed jar and cover with bear-form feet and similar molded decoration, dated Eastern Han dynasty, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.2000.190.4a-b. For another similar covered vessel, dated to the Han dynasty, see B. Laufer, Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, London, 1970, p. 200, pl. 57. Further related examples are illustrated in Treasures from a Swallow Garden: Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, 1992, no. 116; J. Rawson, Ancient China: Art and Archaeology, London, 1980, fig. 173; and N. Palmgren, Selected Chinese Antiquities from the collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pl.64.3.

Auction result comparison: Compare a closely jar and cover, 15.6 cm high, also dated to the Han dynasty, at Sotheby's New York in Asian Art on 15 September 2018, lot 1388, sold for USD 6,875.



漢代綠釉山型三足蓋罐
中國，公元前206至公元 220年。圓柱形三足罐，外壁雙環，浮雕人物狩獵場景。蓋子成山峰形狀，山峰間穿插著動物。罐外覆以濃綠色釉，往下轉為琥珀色，罐內露胎成赭石色，并有飛灑的綠色釉滴。

來源：德國私人老收藏，購於1990年前，保存至今。
品相：與年齡相稱。一些磨損和燒製瑕疵。到處都有小缺損和釉料缺失，有些輕微的修飾。蓋子內部邊緣有傷和相關的裂紋，輕微填充和修飾。

重量：3,080 克
尺寸：高24.7 厘米

拍賣結果比較: 比較一件相似的漢代蓋罐，高 15.6 厘米，見紐約蘇富比Asian Art 2018年9月15日 lot 1388, 售價USD 6,875。