A WHITE-GLAZED BALUSTER JAR
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
Covered overall with a white glaze of ivory tone continuing over the mouth rim and ending in an irregular line above the flat base to expose the white ware, the finely crackled glaze with faint iridescence
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) diam.
Lot Essay
Compare a similar jar in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces from the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1996, no. 90; and in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, p. 83, no. 219.