AN AMBER-GLAZED POTTERY VASE AND COVER, HU, HAN DYNASTYChina, 202 BC to 220 AD. Thepressed globular sides rising from a short, splayed foot to a waisted neck and everted rim surmounted by a domed cover. The shoulder and body each with a narrow band carved with wave designs enclosed by recessed line borders. Covered overall in an even and finely crackled, golden amber glaze, the interior of the cover with a greenish tint. (2)Provenance: The base with an old label, ‘Han Dynasty. Amber glaze. Covered jar. 25-220 AD.’ From the collection of Joseph Rondina (1927-2022), who was born into a first-generation Florentine-American family in Auburn, tate New York. Returning to the U.S. after being stationed in Berlin at the end of the Second World War, he studied at the Whitman School of Design before opening Joseph Rondina Antiques on Madison Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1957. In the beginning, his interests focused primarily on European 18th-century decorative arts and furniture, over time developing to include Chinese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Cambodian, Persian and Japanese art, bringing a more esoteric and exotic style to the market. His clientele included stars of the stage and screen, royalty, notables, dignitaries, and denizens of the social register from the United States and abroad.Condition: Good condition,mensurate with age. The foot chipped with an associated old fill, minor old repairs and touch as generally expected from Han dynasty excavations. Wear, firing flaws, intentional glaze crackling, glaze abrasions, kiln grit, small losses, encrustations.Weight: 1,396 gDimensions: Height 25.8 cmLiteratureparison:Compare a related amber-glazed hu, decorated with taotie masks suspending mock ring handles and lacking the cover, 40.6 cm high, dated to the Eastern Han dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number .pare a related amber-glazed hu, decorated with taotie masks and lacking the cover, 34.5 cm high, dated 2nd century BC to 1st century AD, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, accession number EA1956.909.Auction resultparison:Type: RelatedAuction: Sotheby’s London, 18 May 2018, lot 284AEstimate: GBP 4,000 or approx.EUR 5,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A large amber-glazed pottery vase, hu, Han dynastyExpert remark:pare the closely related form and amber glaze. Note the lacking cover and the larger size (47.5 cm).漢代褐釉弦紋壺中國，公元前202 年至公元220 年。口外撇，束頸，鼓腹，足外撇。有一個圓頂蓋。肩部和身體各有一條弦紋，上面刻有由凹線邊框包圍的波浪圖案。通體施褐色釉，釉色均勻，裂紋細密，蓋內泛綠。