SONG/EARLY YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

Two similar vessels are illustrated by M. Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 194, pl. 265, from the collection of the Percival David Foundation, and an example found off the coast of Sinan, South Korea, p. 198, fig. 268. The author notes that shards of this type of ware have been found at the Ganzhou kiln site in Qilizhen, Jiangxi province, such as that included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, British Museum, London, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1980, no. 252, along with an intact jar, no. 251. As the jars have been found in various sizes, it has been suggested they might have been rice or grain measures.