A WHITE-GLAZED POTTERY COMPRESSED PEAR-SHAPED JAR
AFTERNOON SESSION AT 2.OO PM PRECISELY (LOTS 1301-1498) PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WHITE-GLAZED POTTERY COMPRESSED PEAR-SHAPED JAR

SUI/TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY

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A WHITE-GLAZED POTTERY COMPRESSED PEAR-SHAPED JAR
SUI/TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY
The squat, globular body below a stepped neck and widely-flaring rim, all covered in a finely-crackled, lustrous glaze stopping short of the flat foot
4¼ in. (11cm.) high
Provenance
British Rail Pension Fund; Sotheby's London, 12 December 1989, lot 63.
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Lot Essay

See Mayuyama, Chugoku Bunbutsu Kenbun, Tokyo, 1948, pl. 87, for a similar vase in the Shaanxi Province Museum, Xian, from the tomb of Li Jingxun (A.D.608) at Liangjiazhuang, Western Suburbs of Xian.

Compare, also, the figure of a lady carrying a similar vase, included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of the Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, London, 1955, no.44, pl.6, together with another vase of this form, no.215, both from the Swedish Royal Collections.

See, also, the bronze prototype of this form illustrated by W.P. Yetts, The Eumorfopoulos Collection, London, 1929, vol. I, pl. XLIV, no. A 58

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