A RARE SMALL RUSSET-BROWN-GLAZED LOBED JAR AND COVER

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A RARE SMALL RUSSET-BROWN-GLAZED LOBED JAR AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Of Ding type, the vertical sides with six evenly spaced indentations forming six lobes which rise to a plain, high shoulder surrounding the thin, slightly raised mouth rim, covered inside and out with a russet-skinned dark brown glaze falling short on the lower body above the foot rim to expose the buff-colored stoneware body, the rare cover similarly glazed and with a depressed center from which the knop rises
3 3/8in. (8.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar jar in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, was included in the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 23, 1995-March 10, 1996, and illustrated by Robert Mowry in the Catalogue, pp. 125-126, no. 25, where the author discusses whether or not the jar would have had a cover, as the present example does