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Lot Essay
The bluish or yellowish-white 'phosphatic' (suffused glaze) splashes that decorate dark brown-glazed wares of this type are applied after the initial glazing, often poured onto the pot as it is held in a sideways or inverted position so that the splashes trail decoratively down the body.
A jar of this type and size in The Newark Museum, and formerly in the Jaehne Collection, is illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, p. 95, no. 8, where it is attributed to the Duandian kiln, Lushan county, Henan province. Another very similar jar was included in the exhibition, Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection, 28 March - 16 April 2005, no. 13. See, also, the example illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Early Wares: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, 1, Taipei, 1991, no. 95; and another illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Matsuoka Museum of Art, Japan, 1984, no. 14. Another similar example is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 389.
A jar of this type and size in The Newark Museum, and formerly in the Jaehne Collection, is illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, p. 95, no. 8, where it is attributed to the Duandian kiln, Lushan county, Henan province. Another very similar jar was included in the exhibition, Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection, 28 March - 16 April 2005, no. 13. See, also, the example illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Early Wares: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, 1, Taipei, 1991, no. 95; and another illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Matsuoka Museum of Art, Japan, 1984, no. 14. Another similar example is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 389.