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Lot 3124
3124
A RUSSET-PAINTED BLACKISHBROWN-GLAZED JAR WITH ROPE-TWIST HANDLE
A RUSSET-PAINTED BLACKISHBROWN-GLAZED JAR WITH ROPE-TWIST HANDLE

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

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A RUSSET-PAINTED BLACKISHBROWN-GLAZED JAR WITH ROPE-TWIST HANDLE
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The high-shouldered tapering body is painted in matte russet brown with two long-tailed birds with spread wings swooping down from the shoulder in contrast to the lustrous blackish glaze which also covers the interior where it thins to a brownish colour, the neatly cut, wide mouth is applied with a rope-twist loop handle, the interior of the foot is similarly glazed and the bottom of the foot unglazed to show the fine pale buff stoneware body.
7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) high, box

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Similar examples include one illustrated in Eskenazi exhibition catalogue, Principle Wares of the Song Period from a Private Collection, London, 2015, pl. 20; one sold at Sotheby’s, London, 9 November 2005, lot 231; another illustrated by Basil Gray, Song Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1984, p. 121, no. 96. For a jar of similar form and decoration, but without a handle, see an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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