A GLAZED WHITE STONEWARE GLOBULAR JAR AND A COVER

Details

A GLAZED WHITE STONEWARE GLOBULAR JAR AND A COVER
TANG DYNASTY

The well-potted jar with short neck and lipped rim, the slightly domed cover with everted rim and bud finial, both covered with a glaze of milk-white tone, the glaze on the jar continuing into the interior and stopping at the edge of the flat base, glaze on jar degraded; together with a glazed white stoneware globular jar, Tang Dynasty, with a pair of lug handles on the shoulder, covered inside and out with a clear glaze over a white slip falling short of the flared solid foot to expose the ware, glaze degraded--6 3/4 and 5in. (17.1 and 12.7cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Hellner Collection

Exhibited

Jar and cover: Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 42

Lot Essay

A similar jar and cover in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Prodan, The Art of the T'ang Potter, New York, 1961, no. 100 and another in the Hellner Collection, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Kodanska, 1982, vol. 8, no. 45