J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A similarly decorated Yaozhou jar of this form, excavated in 1981 from the Yaozhou kiln site in Lujiayai, Huangbaozhen, Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province, and now in the Yao Zhou Ware Museum, was included in the 1997 travelling exhibition and illustrated in the catalogue, The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 107, no. 145, with another related example from a private Japanese collection, with petal panels on the neck and pierced foot illustrated on p. 30, no. 32.

Two related Yaozhou jars are illustrated by Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 3d, from the Buffalo Museum of Science, and pl. 7d, excavated at Xi’an, Shaanxi province. Compare also the Yaozhou jar of related form, decorated with scallop-edged petal panels, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and illustrated by Valenstein in the catalogue, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 82, no. 76; in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, So Gen no Bijutsu (Arts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties), Tokyo, 1980, pl. 95; and another example with upright panels forming the neck, in the Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated by Mino and Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1986, p. 144, no. 54.