New Forms - Song/Yuan

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A SMALL JIZHOU JAR WITH TORTOISESHELL GLAZE
Southern Song dynasty, 1127-1279
吉 州 窯 玳 瑁 釉 小 罐 ( 南 宋 1127-1279)
Dimensions: 7.5 cm high
Provenance: - Purchased from Oriental Arts UK, March 2003
- A private English collection
Published: - Oriental Arts UK, Asia Week New York 2003, no. 24, p. 21
The deep sides rising from a flat unglazed base to a short waisted neck with rolled
lip, covered with a rich dark brown glaze mottled with buff glaze shading to a milky
blue on the exterior. The interior with amber mottling.
Compare a slightly larger example from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard
University Art Museums, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for the acquisition
of Oriental Art [1991.227] illustrated in R. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell
and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400,
Massachusetts, 1996, p. 229.