Lot 206
206
A RARE PAIR OF GLAZED WHITE WARE JARS AND COVERS
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. JAMES E. BREECE III
A RARE PAIR OF GLAZED WHITE WARE JARS AND COVERS

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Details
A RARE PAIR OF GLAZED WHITE WARE JARS AND COVERS
Tang dynasty (618-907)
Of baluster shape with short neck and everted rim, covered with a finely crackled glaze over a white slip, the flat base and interior covered with a white slip, the domed cover with bud finial similarly glazed
12¼in. (31.1cm.) high, wood stands (2)

Lot Essay

A similar jar and cover is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Prodan, The Art of the T'ang Potter, 1961, no. 100; and another was included in the exhibition, Early Chinese ceramics and works of art, Eskenazi, London, 1974, pl. 14. Several jars without covers are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 83, figs. 219-22.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd thermoluminescence test no. C102e60 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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