Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)
with wide mouth and narrow shoulders, decorated with twelve ribs of trailed white slip evenly spaced around the steep sides, protruding through the lustrous very dark brown-black glaze ending low on the sides revealing the bright white kaolinic clay of the ribs on the dense stoneware body which has burnt to tan-brown in the firing.
Height 115⁄16 inches (5 cm)
From the Collection of Carl Kempe (1884–1967), Ekolsund, Sweden
Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 94, pl. 267
Chinese Ceramic Treasures: A Selection from Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 478
宋 黑釉直肋紋小罐 高 5 厘米