A Small Dark Brown-Glazed Lotus Bud-Form Water Jar
A Small Dark Brown-Glazed Lotus Bud-Form Water Jar

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

Details
A Small Dark Brown-Glazed Lotus Bud-Form Water Jar
Northern Song dynasty, 11th-12th century
Covered inside and out with an opaque glaze of finely speckled dark brown color, falling in a slightly irregular line above the neatly cut, flared foot to expose the pale grey ware
3 7/8in. (9.8cm.) high, box
Falk Collection no. 124.
Provenance
Walter Hochstadter, New York, April 1943.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar jar with slightly wider mouth opening illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 443, where the author describes the fine speckling as being 'lighter tea-dust suffusions'. See, also, the similar jar illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 266.

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