A GLAZED WHITE WARE JAR AND COVER
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A GLAZED WHITE WARE JAR AND COVER

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A GLAZED WHITE WARE JAR AND COVER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
Of ovoid form, the jar is covered inside and out with an ivory-toned clear glaze which stops at the foot. The domed cover is surmounted by a plain knob and similarly glazed.
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Acquired in Japan prior to 1997.

Lot Essay

Tang jars and covers of this type were made in various sizes and often with a monochrome glaze. Other white ware examples with a clear glaze include a similar jar and cover of comparable size in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by M. Prodan, The Art of the T'ang Potter, 1961, pl. 100 and another example of larger size (24.2 cm. high) illustrated in Early Chinese ceramics and works of art, Eskenazi, London, 1974, pl. 14. A jar of this type with cover (21.7 cm. high), as well as four jars without covers, of varying sizes (14.3 to 25.5 cm. high), are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 97, pl. 261 and p. 83, pls. 219-22.

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