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A GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY MODEL OF A 'WATCH TOWER' Han Dynasty image 1
A GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY MODEL OF A 'WATCH TOWER' Han Dynasty image 2
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GREENWICH CONNECTICUT COLLECTION
Lot 81

A GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY MODEL OF A 'WATCH TOWER'
Han Dynasty

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

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A GREEN-GLAZED RED POTTERY MODEL OF A 'WATCH TOWER'

Han Dynasty
The basin representing the moat with unglazed figures of ducks at the rim and in the well, the tower raised on four square corners with tall brick walls and pairs of protruding joinery around the top, the small doorway above the ladder connecting the rim of the basin, all supporting a roofed observation deck with four archers at the fenced corners, the green glaze with attractive iridescent tones.
24 1/2in (62.2cm) high overall

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漢 綠釉紅陶警哨

Provenance:
Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut

來源:
康乃狄克州格林威治鎮私人藏

Similar 'watch towers' can be found in major museum collections. One very closely compared to the present lot in the collection of the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, is illustrated by Jenkins and Xu, Mysterious Spirits, Strange Beasts, Early Delights: Early Chinese Art from the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection, Portland, 2005, pp. 136-137. Another example is illustrated by Tseng and Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Cambridge, 1964, pl. 36.

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