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A small Jizhou jar with tortoiseshell glaze (Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century)
£ 18,000.00
Period: Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
Dimensions: 7.5cm high
Location: London office
Provenance: UK private collection
Description
The deep sides rising from a flat unglazed vase to a short waisted neck with rolled lip, covered witha 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 Partridhe Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-glazed Ceramics, 400-1400’, Massachusetts, 1996, p. 229.
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