SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A JIZHOU SPLASHED BROWN-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The jar is covered with a dark brown glaze that stops above the foot to expose the pale grey ware and is decorated with sweeping brushstrokes of buff color shading to milky blue in areas.
5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similar jar from the Cleveland Museum of Art illustrated by R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, p. 236, no. 93, where the author describes how the decoration was applied.

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