TWO POTTERY JARS WITH PIERCED FOOT
SILLA DYNASTY
£328
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
新羅 陶臺附長頸壺及蓋罐（共兩件）
comprising: a jar with globular body potted on a flaring lipped foot rising to waisted neck and short everted dish-shaped mouth, the body carved with ribs; and a jar with cover, the compressed globular body rested on a flared foot with six rectangular pierced decoration, near to the short straight mouth incised with a band of geometric patterns, with a high footed cover surmounted with a finial
Dimensions
heights: 16.5cm and 16cm
Provenance
Provenance: The jar with cover from Bluett & Sons Ltd., 25 May 1967, with an original receipt.
Dr. Kenneth P. Lawley's inventory numbers: The jar with dish-shaped mouth, Cer.0; The jar with cover, Cer.24.
Footnote
Note: A highly comparable example of a pierced foot mounted jar with long neck, Silla Kingdom, is in the National Museum of Korea, accession no. Sinsu 13876; A related stoneware jar with natural glaze in places but without the dish-like mouth, Unified Silla Dynasty, is in the British Museum, museum no. 1992,0615.26; Also compare to a footed jar with an incised wave design, Silla Kingdom, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 1997.34.11.
The band of half circle with a dot on the shoulder, almost obscured by the cover of the jar, are a primitive form of decoration, perhaps placing the piece at the beginning of the unified Silla. Compare this decoration with the cover of an urn, Unified Silla Period, previously in the Charles Bain Hoyt (1889-1949) collection, is now in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession no. 50.959a-b; Another comparable example of a jar with cover, Unified Silla Period, is in the National Museum of Korea, accession no. Jeung 145.
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