A PAIR OF LARGE GREY POTTERY VASES AND COVERS, HU, AND A POTTERY COCOON JAR Han Dynasty The grey vases each rising from a high, stepped foot to a large globular body and waisted neck with flaring rim, each applied with a pair of taotie-mask ring handles on the shoulders, and with three channelled bands across the body, with domed covers, the tallest, 56cm (22in) high; the cocoon jar of compressed ovoid shape and incised with vertical string bands, 38cm (15in) wide. (5). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 漢 灰陶蓋壺一對 及陶繭形壺 一組三件 Provenance: with a label dated 26 November 1993 (the cocoon jar) Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2003, no.30 (the pair of vases). 來源：陶繭形壺含標籤，日期為1993年11月26日 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2003年，編號30（灰陶蓋壺一對） The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.C102r73 dated 23 July 2002, is consistent with the dating of this lot. (one vase) Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（2002年7月23日，編號C102r73）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。（蓋壺之一） See a related cocoon jar illustrated by Wu Xiaocong, Han Yangling Museum, Beijing, 2004, no.197. See also A.L.Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone: Chinese Art in the C.C.Wang Family Collection, Seattle, 1988, no.24. For a related painted jar and cover, see C.Noppe, Art Chinois, Néolithique Dynastie Song: Collection Umberto Draghi, Geneva, 1990, no.18. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com