A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON TRIPOD JAR
FIVE DYNASTIES (907-960)
The jar has a well-rounded, lobed body and is supported on three claw feet. It is covered all over in an attractive glaze of pale greyish-green tone that stops in a line above the base.
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high
Provenance
With Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, London, 11 November 2000.
A Yaozhou jar of similar shape, size and dating was included in the exhibition and illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, p. 18, no. 13.