AN UNUSUAL CIZHOU RUSSET-GLAZED RIBBED JAR

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL CIZHOU RUSSET-GLAZED RIBBED JAR
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The rounded ovoid body applied with vertical slip ribs arranged in seven groupings of three around the sides, and with a pair of ribbed loop handles flanking the upright neck, covered with a thick glaze of rich russet tone continuing over the rim to fall atop a thinner glaze of caramel color that covers the interior and on the exterior ending in an irregular line atop a similar thin caramel glaze that also covers the slightly flared low ring foot and part of the base
5½ in. (14 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Bluett & Sons, London, 16 July 1982.

Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, Heaven and Earth Seen Within, 2000, no. 28.

Lot Essay

It is extremely rare to find a Cizhou ribbed jar of this type covered with a russet glaze rather than a black glaze. A black-glazed jar of similar shape with vertical ribs arranged in groups of four is in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in The Hirota Collection, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1973, no. 87.

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