Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A CHINESE THREE-TIERED GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY WATCH TOWER
Lot 69

A CHINESE THREE-TIERED GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY WATCH TOWER

HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)

Closed19 October 2023

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A CHINESE THREE-TIERED GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY WATCH TOWER
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
Rising from a circular basin containing applied fish and frogs, the tiered sections have sloping roofs decorated with archers holding crossbows at the corners, and the uppermost roof surmounted by a bird
36 ½ in. (90.3 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 27 November 1991, lot 263.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note


Compare a similarly constructed tower of this size with archers at the corners and a bird atop the uppermost roof in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series, vol. 9, fig. 7.