A RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND STRAW-GLAZED BALUSTER JAR

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Details

A RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND STRAW-GLAZED BALUSTER JAR
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The high-shouldered body tapering to a slightly everted foot and flat base, with shallow waisted neck and lipped rim. The exterior covered with a rich dark blue glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the buff pottery, the interior covered with a straw glaze of pale amber tone speckled in green glaze.
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 10 March 1996

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Lot Essay

A similar example with a cover, is in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 25.

The result of Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence test no. C117g87 (14 August 2017) is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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