J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection
March 28 - April 16, 2005
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A LARGE IRIDESCENT GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY
FIGURE OF A DUCK
Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25–220)
the plump bird shown standing with wings folded and head held up, well modelled in a realistic attitude, the wings simply moulded, the tail feathers turned up, with an aperture through the chest, the feet moulded together to form the hollow base, the red pottery covered with a green glaze generously applied and now degraded from burial to a silvery iridescence attractively mottled with some blue-green highlights.
Length 10 inches (25.4 cm)
A very similarly modelled glazed pottery duck in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in the catalogue of masterpieces from the Shanghai Museum which toured America in 1983–84, entitled Treasures from the Shanghai Museum: 6000 Years of Chinese Art, Shanghai/San Francisco, 1983, no. 54, col.pl. XVIII.
Compare also the similar green-glazed duck in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts illustrated by Tseng and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Vol. I, Boston, 1964, no. 27.
東漢 綠釉陶鴨 長 25.4 厘米
2.
A LARGE IRIDESCENT GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY
FIGURE OF A DUCK
Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25–220)
Length 10 inches (25.4 cm)