The Concordia House Collection: Fine Chinese Jades and Important Works of Art from a Midwestern Family

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Lot 119
  • 119

A green-glazed pottery model of a granary Han dynasty

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

the cylindrical body set on three 'crouching bear' feet, divided by three sets of grooves beneath a mock-roof of ridged 'tiles' radiating from a central hole forming the mouth of the vessel, covered overall in a spinach-green glaze

Provenance

Personal Collection of C.T. Loo, New York.
Christie's January 1917, lot 109 (by repute).
Personal Collection of Warren E. Cox, New York.

Exhibited

Chinese Ceramics in Chicago Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1982, cat.no. 8, p. 26.

Catalogue Note

Compare a similar green-glazed granary illustrated in Annette L. Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone: Chinese Art in the C.C. Wang Family Collection, Seattle, 1988, cat.no. 26.