A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON RIBBED JAR AND COVER

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A LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON RIBBED JAR AND COVER
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY

The well potted, baluster body covered inside and out with a widely crackled and bubble-suffused glaze of attractive sea-green color draining to a buff color on the slender, pronounced ribs which encircle the sides, the interior of the convex base also glazed, the mouth rim left unglazed and burnt orange in the firing, the 'lotus leaf' cover similarly ribbed in the domed area between the partially upturned rim and the stem knop, a potter's mark in the form of a leafy stem crisply molded inside the cover and covered with the same glaze as on the exterior of the cover and the jar (some restoration to cover, small foot rim chips)
13½in. (34.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a jar and cover of similar shape and decoration, illustrated in Cultural Relics from the Sinan Seabed, National Museum of Korea, 1977, no. 59; and another, in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 164, no. 63