A Rare Large Grey-Green-Glazed Jar and Cover

SIX DYNASTIES

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A Rare Large Grey-Green-Glazed Jar and Cover
Six Dynasties
Of ovoid form tapering to a flat base, the high shoulder applied with two single and two pairs of loop handles of angular outline, each pair positioned below a small loop pendent from the lower edge of the flared, galleried rim, the hat-shaped cover with wide everted rim and slightly domed top incised with a flowerhead at the base of the knop (now broken), covered overall with a clear crackled glaze of grey-green tone
17½in. (44.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Jars of this type and size are rare, and one with a cover is even more rare. Compare a smaller jar of this form, with a more yellowish degraded glaze, illustrated by Lu Yaw, Lee Kong Chian Art Museum, Singapore, ca. 1990, pl. 35.

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