A BROWN-GLAZED RIBBED JAR, NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

A BROWN-GLAZED RIBBED JAR
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The globular body is raised on a slightly splayed foot and the neck is flanked by two strap handles. The sides are applied with slender lines of creamy-white slip to form raised, vertical ribs, with two ribs crossing under each handle. The jar is covered inside and out with a black glaze suffused with yellowish-russet mottling which stops above the unglazed foot, and thins to a brownish color at the edges.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box, silk pouch and lacquered cover

Provenance
The Takeji Yamada Collection, Ashiya.
The Sorimachi Shigesaku Collection.
Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Literature
Toki Zoruku (Ceramics Catalogue), vol. 7: China (I), Tokyo, 1938, p. 82, no. 107.
Koyama Fujio, Soji, Tokyo, 1943, no. 57.
Koyama Fujio, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu (Collection of World’s Ceramics), vol. 10: China Sung and Liao Dynasties, Tokyo, 1955, no. 117.
Hasube Gakuji, Toki Zenshu, 13, So no Jishuyo (Ceramics Anthology, 13, Song Cizhou ware), Tokyo, 1958, no. 55.
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 92-93, no. 32.

Exhibited
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.