Lot Essay
A very similar jar is illustrated in Qinghai Liuwan (Excavation of a Primitive Society Cemetary at Liuwan in Qinghai), vol. II, Wenwu Press, Beijing, 1984, pl. 133, fig. 2. Compare, also, the similar jar in the Collection of Judith Ogden Bullitt illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 7, no. 6