西晉 青釉虎子

the tapered cylindrical body supported on four small folded legs, the handle formed by a slender tiger crouching behind the vessel's wide gaping mouth, all under a thin olive-green glaze

There is a restored area of the mouth rim measuring 2.5 x 5.5 cm as well as a few flake losses to the flat rear end. There is wear throughout consistent with age and a pen marking to the underside.
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Compare a similar example from the same collection exhibited in Shades of Green Jade and Misty Mountains: Chinese Celadon Wares from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie C. C. Tsao, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, 2003, pl. 2.