Han - Black Han Pottery Amphora
Height: 13 3/8 inches
A large burnished black-grey amphora. The slightly waisted neck with hatching and the body with
four spirals in low relief, broad flat handles rising from the body to meet the outward curve of
the everted rim. Black pottery amphorae of this shape have been produced from the Warring States
period and throughout the Han Dynasty in the province of Western Sichuan. Amphorae of this type
are rarely found in museums or private collections.
c/f: Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, 1974, Vol.5, no.1 and Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, 1994, Vol.1, no.65.
AS927
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