A WHITE-GLAZED OVIFORM JAR AND COVER Tang dynasty

A WHITE-GLAZED OVIFORM JAR AND COVER
Tang dynasty
The oviform body with rounded shoulder and slightly tapering short cylindrical neck with four simple applied double lug coil handles, all under an attractive lightly-crackled glaze that has a slightly green tone and which continues over the lip to the interior, and that stops unevenly just above the short buff-white stoneware spreading foot and flat base, the lightly domed cover surmounted by a bud-form finial.
7 1/8in (18.1cm) high
Footnotes:
唐 白瓷四繫卵形蓋罐

Similar jars of a larger size include one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 153; one formerly in the collection of Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, included in the exhibition The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1955, cat. no. 177; one with a cover, in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated by Yutaka Mino in Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stoneware's, Toronto, 1974, pl. 31; and a fourth formerly in the collection of Sakamoto Goro, sold at Sotheby's New York, 13th September 2016, lot 7.

Condition Report: PLEASE NOTE: This report describes, but may not be limited to, major condition issues for the lot. The jar and cover are in good, original condition with no restoration. The small bud-shaped finial of the cover has a chip to one side, and a shallow chip to the interior not seen from the outside. A small chip the foot edge exterior but again fairly unobtrusive. The usual small kiln firing glaze imperfections and minor burst bubbles. A most attractive jar and cover.