AN UNUSUAL PHOSPHATIC-GLAZED JAR
PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN COLLECTION
AN UNUSUAL PHOSPHATIC-GLAZED JAR

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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AN UNUSUAL PHOSPHATIC-GLAZED JAR
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
Of broad ovoid form with short, wide neck rising to a lipped rim, with two upright loop handles applied to the high shoulder, covered inside and out with a lustrous dark brown glaze embellished with milky-blue phosphatic splashes trailing irregularly to the lower edge of the glaze, which stops above the foot to expose the buff granular ware
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a discussion on the technique involved in glazing vessels of this type, please see the footnote to lot 196.

Similar phosphatic-glazed jars include the example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 31 - Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 210, no. 195; the jar illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, p. 49, pl. XIX, fig. B; the example illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Early Wares: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, 1, Taipei, 1991, no. 95; and another illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, The Matsuoka Museum of Art, Japan, 1984, no. 14.

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