J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection
March 28 - April 16, 2005
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A PAINTED JIZHOU SMALL JAR (GUAN)
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)
of ovoid form, with steeply rounded sides and high, narrow shoulders surmounted by a short neck gently inclined up to the wide mouth with rolled-out lip, boldly decorated with an abstract pattern of loose calligraphic brush-strokes of milky caramel-colored slip over a rich dark chocolate-brown glaze covering the interior and exterior, the flat base and blunt wedge-shaped footring left unglazed revealing the dry pottery body fired to pale tan color.
Height 4 inches (10.2 cm)
Width 4 3⁄4 inches (12 cm)
A similar jar in the Cleveland Museum of Art is illustrated by Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400–1400, Cambridge, 1996, p. 236, no. 93, described as from the kilns at Yonghe, Ji’an, Jiangxi province. The author cites related jars in the Qingjiang County Museum in Jiangxi province illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Jizhouyao (Compendium of Chinese Ceramics: Jizhou Ware), Vol. 16, Kyoto, 1986, no. 50, and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, illustrated by Tseng and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Vol. II, Boston, 1972, no. 134.
Compare also the tortoise-shell glazed jar of this form, with the same rolled-out lip, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji, Liang Song Ciqi (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty), Vol. 33, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 234, no. 215.
宋 吉州黑釉彩繪罐 高 10.2 厘米 徑 12 厘米
26.
A PAINTED JIZHOU SMALL JAR (GUAN)
Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1127–1279)
Height 4 inches (10.2 cm)
Width 4 3⁄4 inches (12 cm)