遼 褐黃釉雞冠皮囊壺

of 'pouch' form, the tall tapered body supported on a flared foot and rising to a short vertical tubular spout fused with a notched arched handle, the body applied with bosses and straps to simulate its leather prototype, covered with a yellowish amber glaze falling in an uneven line over the buff-colored body 

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1988-2015 (on loan).

There are areas of touch up to the glaze, particularly around the applied straps. There is also some glaze loss.
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Three closely related flasks with similar applied decoration and notched handle but with various glazes are illustrated in Yuzo Sigimura, Toji Taikei: Ryo no toji [Liao Dynasty Ceramics], Tokyo, 1974, pls. 2, 32 and 33.