Lot Essay
It is rare to find a globular jar of this type entirely glazed from foot to rim. On most published examples, the glaze either stops three-quarters of the way down the body or finishes unevenly just above the foot.
A similar jar from the Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund and formerly the Collection of Sir George Labouchere, C.B.E., K.C.M.G., sold at Sotheby's, London, December 12, 1989, lot 61; and was illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt and Jean-Claude Moreau-Gobard, Chinese Art: Bronze, Jade, Sculpture, Ceramics, New York, 1980, pl. 135.
Similar jars are illustrated by William Bowyer Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and the Other Countries of the Far East, London, 1945, pl. 26a, in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and in Oriental Ceramics, Japan, 1982, vol. 3, in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta. Others have been included in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Works of Art, Japan, 1978, Catalogue, no. 170.
A similar jar from the Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund and formerly the Collection of Sir George Labouchere, C.B.E., K.C.M.G., sold at Sotheby's, London, December 12, 1989, lot 61; and was illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt and Jean-Claude Moreau-Gobard, Chinese Art: Bronze, Jade, Sculpture, Ceramics, New York, 1980, pl. 135.
Similar jars are illustrated by William Bowyer Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and the Other Countries of the Far East, London, 1945, pl. 26a, in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and in Oriental Ceramics, Japan, 1982, vol. 3, in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta. Others have been included in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Works of Art, Japan, 1978, Catalogue, no. 170.