TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A LARGE WHITE-GLAZED OVOID JAR AND COVER
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The heavily potted ovoid body raised on a flat foot and with lipped rim, covered inside and out with a glaze of warm ivory tone shading to a darker tone on the shoulder, the slightly domed conical cover with bud finial similarly glazed
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare this large, almost balloon-like rounded jar and cover with examples, albeit smaller in size, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, no. 45; and by M. Prodan, The Art of the Tang Potter, New York, 1961, no. 100.

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