SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A very similar covered jar, but lacking the incised vertical lines on the body, is illustrated in Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from the Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 148, pl. 32, where it is cited that such covered vessels were used as storage containers for food and tea powder. A similar covered jar is illustrated by U. Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik: Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, Köln, 1988, p. 55, no. 27, and another in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, no. 169.