A GREEN-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR AND COVER

SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY

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A GREEN-GLAZED STONEWARE JAR AND COVER
Six dynasties period, 6th century
Of broad ovoid form, encircled by a band of thick overlapping cut-out petal tips with out-turned ends, the shoulder applied with two single and two pairs of squared lug handles joined by a double-groove border below the short neck, covered with a transparent olive-green glaze suffused with crackle ending in a pooled line on the lower body above the flat base to expose the fine-grained stoneware, the cover with similar cut-out petals below a platform surmounted by a pierced knop handle
9in. (22.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

A virtually identical jar and cover in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo, no. 2. By the end of the 6th century, the molding of the leaf tips in high relief had been abandoned for an incised line, as can be seen on a jar in the Honolulu Academy of Arts illustrated by M. Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, p. 67, pl. 59. An example of this latter type of jar, along with its cover, was sold in these rooms, 16 September 1999, lot 273.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. P101y87 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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