A DINGYAO JAR

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY

Details

A DINGYAO JAR
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY
The globular body carved on the shoulder with two narrow, encircling bands and covered with an ivory glaze that continues irregularly over the rim of the slightly tapering neck to partially cover the interior and falls irregularly onto the shallow foot ring exposing the white ware, the base similarly glazed
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high, box

Provenance

H.M. Knight Collection; Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1982, lot 223.
Bluett & Sons, London, 6 December 1982.

Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 6.

Lot Essay

The unglazed rim of the present jar and its comparison to similarly shaped examples with covers indicate it originally had a cover. A similar Ding jar with cover was excavated from the tomb of Yan Deyuan, dated to 1189, and is illustrated by J. M. Addis, Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs, and Some Other Dated Materials, London, 1987, p. 28, pl. 19a. Another similar jar and cover in the collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science is illustrated by W. Hochstadter, "Ceramics of the Five Dynasties and Sung Periods," Hobbies: The Magazine of the Buffalo Museum of Science, vol. 26, no. 5, June 1946, no. 88. A Ding jar of similar shape, but with a rounded lip, in The Victoria and Albert Museum, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1976, no. 80.

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