Large 'Hu' Storage Jar
Artist
Unidentified artist
CultureChinese
Date2nd-3rd century
MediumGreen lead-glazed funerary ware: brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze over molded decoration
Dimensions17 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (44.5 × 31.8 cm)
Classificationsceramics
Credit LineGift of Freeman family graduates from Dobson NC, Franklin ‘67, Smith ‘68, Samuel ‘72, Betsy Fox ‘73.
Object number2018.18.3
DescriptionOf slightly compressed globular form supported by a straight foot and with flaring neck ending in a cupped mouth, the sloping shoulder molded in low relief with a wide band showing equestrian archers hunting lions, tigers, striding dragons and other animals, interspersed with mountains, and a pair of fixed ring and taotie or pushou mask 'handles', between horizontal double rib bands, in the manner of bronze vessels of the period, under thick streaked and crackled dark leaf-green lead glazes showing slight iridescence through burial, the flat base with four spur remnants, glaze flakes on rim, impact depression on one side, kiln touch marks.On View
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