Lot 7
7
AN ASH-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR

Details
AN ASH-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR
WARRING STATES

Of tapering ovoid form, the upper body encircled by a band of narrow, vertically carved grooves repeated in a narrower band on the high shoulder where it is interrupted by two sections of flecked decoration to which are applied loop handles suspending stationary rings, all below a short, upright mouth rim, irregularly mottled with a dark olive-green kiln gloss
10¼in. (26cm.) across

Lot Essay

A similar jar, also with ring handles, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., no. 30. Others, minus their ring handles, are illustrated by Mitsuru Uragami, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic Period to the Western Han, vol. II, Tokyo, 1994, p. 68, no. 110; in the Ashmolean Museum by William Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China, London, 1991, no. 74; and one from the Ingram Collection included in the exhibition, Chinese Art, Venice, 1954, Catalogue, no. 285