A SMALL 'IRON-RUST'-GLAZED OVOID JAR

18TH CENTURY

Details

A SMALL 'IRON-RUST'-GLAZED OVOID JAR
18TH CENTURY
The interior and exterior covered with a finely mottled glaze of rust-brown color flecked in silver that ends just below the white rim and pools in a line on the exterior above the unglazed foot coated with a brown dressing, the base similarly glazed
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Samuel T. Peters Collection, no. 1201.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tcherepnine Collection; Christie's, New York, 29-30 1984, lot 230.

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Lot Essay

Compare the related jar of smaller size (9.8 cm.) with a more flared rim illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 261, no. 945. Another related jar with rolled rim is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 3, Geneva, 1972, no. 397, where the author notes that the 'iron-rust' glaze (tiexiu) "appears to have been an innovation of the Qianlong period."

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