Lot Essay
Jars of this type are illustrated by Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1949, p. 429, figs. 630, 631 and 633. For a discussion of this group, see Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Robert D. Mowry, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, where two more examples are illustrated in the Catalogue, pp. 195-197, nos. 71 and 72