A LARGE HENAN RIBBED JAR

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A LARGE HENAN RIBBED JAR
SONG DYNASTY

Well potted and of broad, ovoid form, the pair of applied strap handles joining the short neck and high shoulder applied with thin fillets of white slip which continue down the sides to blend in with the vertical slip 'ribs' encircling the body and showing through the lustrous black glaze draining to blue or pale russet in areas and continuing over the lipped rim and stopping short on the exterior above the knife-cut foot, the lower body, horizontally ribbed interior and base covered with a thin olive-brown wash, restoration to one handle--8 3/8in. (21.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similar jar in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl. 109B; and another illustrated by S. Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, no. 34. Others are illustrated in Song Dynasty Ceramics, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 1979, no. 78; Mayuyama, Seventy Years, 1976, vol. I, no. 569 and Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, The Matsuoka Museum of Art, no. 20