A CIZHOU BLACK-GLAZED RIBBED GLOBULAR JAR

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A CIZHOU BLACK-GLAZED RIBBED GLOBULAR JAR
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The rounded body decorated with twenty-five vertical ribs formed by slender trails of white slip that appear buff color through the glossy black glaze that thins to olive brown on the short neck and falls short of the foot to expose the fine pale grey stoneware, the interior covered with a thin transparent glaze
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 7 December 1983, lot 209.

Exhibited

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Ceramics: The Chinese Legacy, 1984, no. 12, p. 16.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 29.

Lot Essay

Dark-glazed jars of this type, decorated with vertical ribs of trailed white slip, were produced in various sizes and shapes at a number of Cizhou kiln sites in Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces. A similar jar from the Seligman Collection now in the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no. 122. Another similar example is illustrated in Mayuyama: Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, p. 191, no. 567, together with a related black-glazed ribbed jar, no. 566, and a jar with ribs arranged in groups of three, no. 565.

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