A Brown-Glazed Stoneware Ovoid Jar
A Brown-Glazed Stoneware Ovoid Jar

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A Brown-Glazed Stoneware Ovoid Jar
Tang dynasty (618-907)
The heavily potted ovoid body raised on a spreading solid foot, with a pair of loop handles on the high shoulder below the waisted neck and cup-shaped mouth, covered with a thick dark brown glaze continuing over the rim
8¾in. (22.3cm.) high
Falk Collection no. 97.
Provenance
Walter Hochstadter, New York, December 1942.
Exhibited
Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, no. 60.
Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects - The Myron S. Falk Collection, Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, 1957, no. 17.

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