SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE QINGBAI 'RICE MEASURE' JAR
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The exterior is finely incised with parallel lines forming concentric semi-circles on two sides. A row of iron-spot bosses encircles the shoulder between two incised lines. The jar is covered inside and out with a glaze of even pale blue color that ends in an irregular line around the unglazed, flat base which has burnt pale orange in the firing, and around the unglazed center of the interior.
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Lot Essay

Jars of this type are often referred to as 'rice measures'. A similar but smaller qingbai example (6.5 cm. high) is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 333, no. 621, where the author notes that others of this type were made as early as the Northern Song period.

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