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

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.