A BLACK-GLAZED 'PARTRIDGE FEATHER' JAR AND COVER
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A BLACK-GLAZED 'PARTRIDGE FEATHER' JAR AND COVER

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

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A BLACK-GLAZED 'PARTRIDGE FEATHER' JAR AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The ovoid jar has a short cylindrical neck applied with two lug handles and stands on a short foot ring. It is covered on the inside and outside with a lustrous black glaze stopping irregularly around the base, and decorated with russet splashes. The shallow domed cover has a flat rim and is surmounted by a button finial, and similarly decorated.
6 1/4 in. (15.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
The private collection of a Japanese physician (b. 1925)
Collection of Umezawa Hikotaro, Tokyo, Japan
Kochukyo, Tokyo, circa 1975
Exhibited
Umezawa Gallery, Tokyo, Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, 1969, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 32
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Please note that the dating of this lot should read:
PROBABLY SONG DYNASTY

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Lot Essay

Although Northern black-glazed jars of this type with lug handles are known, it is quite rare for them to retain their covers. The current jar is also very successfully fired, with its attractive, bold russet splashes beautifully set off against a dark, lustrous black ground. The distinctive decoration on this type of wares are poetically called 'partridge feather', since the spots apparently resemble the pattern on the chest of partridges, with characteristic small brownish white spots.

Compare a closely related jar in the Robert Barron Collection, which has a taller neck and more tapered lower body, illustrated in Heaven and Earth Seen Within, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, no. 32. Compare also two black-glazed vessels from the Falk Collection, one a baluster vase, sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2002, lot 288; the other a covered bowl, sold at Christie's New York, 1 October 2001, lot 83.

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