Chinese red pottery vessel, [hu] form,

slanted shoulder, short neck, flat rim, four fret squares topped with leaf glazed dark blue, chalky white glaze eroded, mostly gone, potted at an angle, old gauze label 001 - Han Dynasty - Earliest form of - glazed earthenware - wonderful example - of China's early __(?)__, several characters in black on base, firing flaws, chips to base and rim, star crack on side, 7-1/2 x 5-1/2; deaccessioned by Hickory Museum of Art