The jar of inverted, pear-shaped form with a rolled rim above a short, waisted neck. The cream-coloured glaze stopping halfway down the body, finished with a flat, unglazed base.
A cream-glazed pottery jar (Tang dynasty, 618-907 AD)
Description
Dimensions: 28.5cm high
Provenance:
Gisèle Croës Oriental Art, Brussels, 25 October 1984 (invoice)
A private Belgian collection
The jar of inverted, pear-shaped form with a rolled rim above a short, waisted neck. The cream-coloured glaze stopping halfway down the body, finished with a flat, unglazed base.
Produced in Henan or Hebei province, in the 7th or early 8th century during the Tang dynasty, the present example is one of the larger pieces of its kind and is unusual for the presence of a white slip, probably intended to mask the light colouring of the paste of the body.
Compare a similar example, offered at Bonhams San Francisco, 30 August 2011, lot 6284.
