NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

Details

A SMALL RIBBED BLACK-GLAZED JAR
Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Of Cizhou type, the compressed bulbous body decorated with vertical ribs of trailed white slip showing pale brown through the lustrous black glaze which falls in an irregular line above the shallow ring foot, the short neck with a brownish glaze repeated on the interior, the interior of the foot also glazed and the unglazed bottom of the foot showing the fine-grained grey ware
4 7/8in. (12.3cm.) across, box

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1989, lot 244.

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 related small jar in The British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1981, no. 122. Compare, also, the related small jar illustrated in the catalogue for the exhibition, Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, p. 88, no. 29.

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