SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

Details

Two Brown-Decorated Glazed Stoneware Vessels
Song/Jin dynasty, 10th-11th century
One a Cizhou small two-handled baluster jar painted in brown with three rows of foliate sprigs atop a white slip and covered with a clear glaze ending on the lower body; the other a bowl with rounded sides, curving inward towards the pie-crust rim with raised inner edge and decorated with daubs of olive-brown glaze atop the white glaze that covers the interior and part of the exterior
4in. and 6¼ in. (10.2 and 15.9 cm.) across
Falk Collection nos. 195 and 52. (2)

Provenance

Bowl: Walter Hochstadter, New York, April 1943.

Lot Essay

For a similar two-handled jar decorated with foliate sprigs, see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 264, no. 484. Compare, also, the two similar jars in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Boston, 1952, p. 72, nos. 286-7.

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