A SMALL BLUE-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY JAR

TANG AND SONG WARES

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A SMALL BLUE-GLAZED BUFF POTTERY JAR
TANG DYNASTY

Of compressed globular form surmounted by a waisted neck with wide cup-shaped mouth, covered in a finely-crackled deep blue glaze stopping evenly in a line at mid-body above the flat base, the glaze of blackish-blue tone and well-preserved, minor restoration to rim--4 1/4 in. (10.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar jar in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated in by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, no. 56 and again in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 12, col. pl. 7