Vase-shaped Wine Container

Food & Drink Pottery

Wine container of Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) with a small neck. Grave offering modeled in a shaping like bronze vessels. Neck white grey. Vascular body rust/red brown with a kind of white chalk or lime decoration. Shoulder and lower vascular area middle grey with white decoration.

Object ID
Han_004

Age
Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)

Material
Ceramics

Color
grey-brown

Width
25 cm

Depth
12 cm

Height
24 cm

Height (neck)
5 cm

Standfoot diameter
7.5 cm

Standfoot hight
2.5 cm

Condition
Good. Standfoot a little chipped off.

Price
on request

Description

Vessels for wine and water in various modifications belonged to the ceramics of the Han period.
This vase-shaped wine container has an oval cross section. The color is grey-brown with remaining stocks of white color. The vessel has three sections: the small round-based standfoot, the bulging container and the low neck with an upper rectangular finish. The neck and the foot are much smaller than the body. The neck wears a tape with white painting while the body shows only minor paint residue. The overall shape reminds on the cocoon of a silkworm.

Those vessels were found on burial sites. They became filled up with wine that the deceased should enjoy in the afterlife. [1]

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[1] Goepper, Roger (1968): Kunst und Kunsthandwerk Ostasiens. Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung München. München. 44.