Vase with polychrome decoration

2 800,00

Terracotta
China
Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220)
H. 35 cm

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Description

This ancient terracotta is a small Hu 壺 vase. It presents a profuse painted decoration, composed of volutes, arabesques. Concentric red circles delineate the different registers of this polychrome decoration.

Resting on an annular foot, this vase with a globular body ends with a neck with a very slightly flared lip.

The polychromy is remarkably well preserved, showing a range of warm, particularly shimmering colours.

 

This vase is part of the Chinese production of terracotta under the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), whose hegemony corresponds to a very prosperous period of China’s early imperial reigns. This is evidenced by the quantity of terracotta objects, in a spectacular variety of shapes and colours, that the tombs of the period have yielded. This context of discovery leads us to believe that these objects had a ritual as well as a funerary function.