CHINE, DYNASTIE QI DU NORD-SUI (550-618)

A similar jar and cover is included by E. T. Chow and F. S. Drake in "Sui-T’ang: A Study of Sui and Early Tang Porcellanous Stoneware", Journal of Oriental Studies, University of Hong Kong, Vol. I, No. 2, July 1954, Fig. 1, plates IV & V; another was included by John Ayers, Margaret Medley and Nigel Wood in the exhibition of Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, no. 15, p. 15; another straw glazed stoneware jar of this form, dated to the Tang Dynasty, was included by Sotheby’s New York in their auction of Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, 7 November 1980, lot no. 52, where it mentions, ‘A similar vase in the Xian Museum, from a tomb dated A.D. 608, illustrated by Mayuyama, Chyugoku Bunbutsu Kenbun, pl. 87...’.
A jar and cover with four double-loop handles, applied with medallions on the shoulder, is included by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), no. 1364, pp. 354-355.