NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

Dark-glazed jars of this type, decorated with vertical ribs of trailed white slip, were produced in various sizes and shapes at a number of Cizhou kiln sites in Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces. A jar of similar shape and decorated with vertical groupings of white-slip ribs, but in groups of four rather than six, such as on the current jar, from the Bernat Collection, was included included in the Currier Gallery of Art exhibition, Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty, New Hampshire, 1959, no. 86, and was later sold at Sotheby’s New York, 7 November 1980, lot 172. See, also, the jar of this type from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Janos Szekeres, but with single, vertical white-slip ribs evenly dispersed around the body, illustrated by R. D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 174-9, no. 61.