NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

A number of similar jars of comparable size and with this unusual 'rouletted' decoration have been published. See, for example, the jar with matching cover in The Seattle Art Museum, included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 14 March - 27 April, 1952, no. 227; the jar illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1999, p. 66, no. 22; the jar in The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Hakutoh-ro Collection, Osaka, 2003, p. 34, no. 87; the example in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and formerly in the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Collection, illustrated by R. D. Jacobson, Appreciating China, Minneapolis, 2002, no. 118; and the jar formerly in the F. Brodie and Enid Lodge Collection, sold at Sotheby's, London, 7 June 2000, lot 137.