A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN JAR

FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY

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A GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-12TH CENTURY
The jar is of ovoid form with a wide mouth and flanged rim, and is decorated with a pair of incised lines on the steeply rounded shoulders. It is covered overall with a clear glaze applied over white slip, with a pool of dark iron-brown glaze in the center of the interior.
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high, cloth box

Provenance

Roger Keverne, London, 2015.
Private European collection.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4851.

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Lot Essay

Compare the Ding covered jar of very similar form, also decorated with pairs of incised lines, found in 1969 in the underground foundation vault of the Jingzhongyuan Pagoda, dated to AD 995, in Dingzhou city, Hebei province, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 3, Hebei, Beijing, 2008, p. 113, no. 113.

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