NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

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A BLACK-GLAZED RIBBED JAR
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The ribbed, globular body is supported on an unglazed splayed foot, and the neck is flanked by a pair of strap handles. The jar is covered with a blackish-brown glaze, and the raised ridges on the ribbed body are accentuated by vertical lines that were applied with creamy-white glaze.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Shimojo Art, Tokyo.

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Lot Essay

Dark brown or black-glazed stoneware vessels with ribbed decoration appear to have been made in several kilns in northern China. Compare a slightly larger wide-mouthed jar (25.4 cm. high) of this type, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Janos Szekeres, illustrated by R. D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 174-9, no. 61. A slightly smaller example (approx. 7 in. high) is in the Meiyintang Collection and illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 248, no. 447.

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