A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY JAR

Details

A GREEN-GLAZED POTTERY JAR
TANG DYNASTY

The tapering globular body covered on the exterior with a crackle-suffused glaze of leaf-green color applied over a cream-colored slip, both continuing over the lipped rim and stopping in an irregular line on the lower body to expose the pinkish buff ware, raised on a flat foot, the interior washed with a straw glaze, three spur marks on the rim, some glaze flaking
7in. (17.8cm.) high

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc III

Lot Essay

A similar jar of slightly larger size (18.4cm.) is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, United Kingdom, 1994, no. 227 and another, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, is illustrated by Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries of the Far East, London, 1945, pl. 26a