A TEADUST-GLAZED FOLIATE-RIMMED JAR

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

Details

A TEADUST-GLAZED FOLIATE-RIMMED JAR
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
The jar has a rounded body, shallow canted shoulder and wide neck which rise to a hexagonal, rolled foliate rim, and is covered inside and out with a finely speckled opaque teadust glaze which falls in an irregular line over a transparent wash of the same tone.
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Pauline Baerwald Falk (1910-2000) and Myron (Johnny) Falk Jr. (1906-1992) Collection, New York, no. 12.
The Falk Collection I; Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001, lot 74.

Literature

Kaikodo Journal, New York, Spring 2002, no. 58.

Exhibited

New York, Kaikodo, 2002.

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Lot Essay

The distinctive form of this jar is discussed by L. Rotondo-McCord in the catalogue for the exhibition, Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, p. 50, who traces its development from its first appearance in the ninth century through the Song dynasty, when jars of this type were particularly popular. The author cites that such jars may have functioned as waste receptacles for wine dregs or tea leaves.

A very similar jar is illustrated by M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 52a.

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