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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; and by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p.97, col. pl. L.
Althought Medley suggests (p.72) that this type of ware may have come from the Huangdao kilns near Jiaxian, Henan Province, Mowry notes (p.96) that the Duandian kiln in Lushan (Henan province) made finer quality wares with thick, opaque brown glazes and decorated with bluish white suffusions.
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.
See a very comparable jar sold in our New York Rooms, 20 September 2005, lot 196.
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; and by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p.97, col. pl. L.
Althought Medley suggests (p.72) that this type of ware may have come from the Huangdao kilns near Jiaxian, Henan Province, Mowry notes (p.96) that the Duandian kiln in Lushan (Henan province) made finer quality wares with thick, opaque brown glazes and decorated with bluish white suffusions.
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.
See a very comparable jar sold in our New York Rooms, 20 September 2005, lot 196.