A Small Brown-Glazed Ribbed Jar

SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Details

A Small Brown-Glazed Ribbed Jar
Song/Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century
Of Cizhou type, the ovoid body with a pair of slender strap handles and a short neck, the sides decorated with narrow vertical ribs of slip which stand in contrast to the blackish-brown glaze that stops in an even line to expose the fine-grained stoneware of pale grey tone, the glaze continuing over the rim onto the thinner glaze of the interior
3 3/16 in. (8.1cm.) high, box
Falk Collection no. 109.

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, November 1948.

Lot Essay

Dark-glazed jars of this type, decorated with vertical ribs of trailed white slip, were produced in various sizes and shapes at a number of Cizhou kiln sites in Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces. A similar jar of larger size is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol.1, p. 191, fig. 568, and a related jar of similar small size, but lacking the strap handles, is illustrated to its left, fig. 567.

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