J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
58.
A RUST-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED CIZHOU POTTERY JAR
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
with wide cylindrical neck rising to a lipped rim, the globular body tapering to a broad ring foot, applied with a pair of double-strap handles joining the neck to the shoulders, covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze splashed with rust-brown all around the sides, the glaze thinning to pale brown on the edges of the lip and handles and ending in an even line above the base revealing the gray stoneware.
Height 4 inches (10.2 cm)
From the Collection of Baron Cunliffe (1899-1963), no. T-22
A rust-splashed black-glazed jar of very similar form but with unglazed rim is illustrated by Rotondo-McCord in Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans, 2000, no. 32, pp. 94-95, where the author cites a very similar jar found at the Cizhou kiln site at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province, from a stratum dating to the beginning of the 12th century, illustrated in Guantai Cizhou Yaozhi, Beijing 1997, pl. LI, no. 6 and fig. 94:9, p. 220. Another similar jar is illustrated by Palmgren, Sung Sherds, Stockholm, 1963, fig. 12, p. 230, described as from Qinghexian.
Compare also the similar jar illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, no. 463, pp. 254-255.
北宋 黑釉醬斑雙耳小罐 高 10.2 厘米
58.
A RUST-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED CIZHOU POTTERY JAR
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
Height 4 inches (10.2 cm)