A small impressed grey pottery globular jar with handle, Warring States period (475-221 BC). © Christie's Image 2003

Thinly potted and impressed with a fine mesh pattern ending below the sharply defined mouth rim, applied on one side with three small scrolls centered by a loop handle suspending a loose ring, and on the other with a narrow handle bent upwards and joined to the shoulder by a strut - 5¾in. (14.6cm.) across handle - Lot 190. Estimate $1,000 - $1,500. Price Realized $1,554 

Notes: A similar bowl with similar handle in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, pp. 66-67, no. 35. 

CHRISTIE'S. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza