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
52.
A RUST-BROWN SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID STONEWARE JAR
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
of thinly potted ovoid form, surmounted by a short upright neck with unglazed rim around the wide mouth, covered inside and out with a rich black glaze with unusually lustrous surface, decorated with randomly applied splashes of matte russet-brown glaze shading to iridescent green tones at the margins, all running downwards, the glaze ending in an even line well short of the rounded base raised on a high ring foot with splayed edge, the gray stoneware body fired to a pale buff color.
Height 5 inches (12.7 cm)
From the Collection of Professor Postan and Lady Cynthia Postan
From the Collection of Frederick Knight
Exhibited:
London, The Postan Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics, Bluett & Sons, Ltd. 1972
Published:
Bluett & Sons, Ltd., The Postan Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, no. 8
Compare the globular jar of more compressed form and smaller size with similar rust-splashed black glaze illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, no. 461, p. 254.
宋 黑釉醬斑陶罐 高 12.7 厘米
52.
A RUST-BROWN SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED OVOID STONEWARE JAR
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
Height 5 inches (12.7 cm)