A CIZHOU RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED JAR

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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A CIZHOU RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED JAR
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
With sharply tapering body and wide neck tapering to an unglazed lipped mouth, the exterior covered with a lustrous black glaze liberally splashed in russet that thins to more of a caramel color on the pair of double-strap loop handles and ends well above the slightly flared foot to expose the pale buff stoneware, the inside of the neck glazed black while the remainder of the interior is covered with a thin glaze of dark caramel color
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, August 1967.

Exhibited

Huntsville Museum of Art, The Art of China and Japan, 1977, no. 37, p. 26.
New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 32.

Lot Essay

A jar of nearly identical proportions was recovered from the major kiln site of Guantai in southern Hebei province from a stratum dating to the first half of the 12th century, and is illustrated in Guantai Cizhou Yaozhi, Beijing 1997, pl. LI, no. 6 and p. 220, fig. 94:9. Another similar jar, said to have been found at Qinghexian, is illustrated by N. Palmgren, Sung Sherds, Stockholm, 1963, p. 230, fig. 12. Other examples are illustrated by J. Koyama, Toji Taikei, vol. 38, Temmoku, Tokyo, 1974, no. 64, and in Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik aus Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1974, p. 62, no. 55.

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