A magnificent Chinese Cizhou black-glazed jar Jin dynasty (1115-1234) The rounded body decorated with seven groups of four raised ribs each, the wide short neck everted and applied with twin lug handles, covered with a thick blackish-brown glaze spilling over the mouth rim where it thins to brown and thinning to a mushroom tone on the ribs while stopping short in thick drops above the foot. H. 16.3 cm Provenance: - E. Pranger Oriental Arts (Olympia Fair London, 1999) - Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam Compare: - M. Tregear, La Céramique Song, Fribourg 1982, p.19, ill. 8 - He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London 1996, p. 165, fig. 305 - [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 61, p. 175 - R. Krahl, Yuegutang. Ein Berliner Sammlung Chinesischer Keramik, Berlin 2000, p. 222, no. 176
A magnificent Chinese Cizhou black-glazed jar Jin dynasty (1115-1234) The rounded body decorated with seven groups of four raised ribs each, the wide short neck everted and applied with twin lug handles, covered with a thick blackish-brown glaze spilling over the mouth rim where it thins to brown and thinning to a mushroom tone on the ribs while stopping short in thick drops above the foot. H. 16.3 cm Provenance: - E. Pranger Oriental Arts (Olympia Fair London, 1999) - Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam Compare: - M. Tregear, La Céramique Song, Fribourg 1982, p.19, ill. 8 - He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London 1996, p. 165, fig. 305 - [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 61, p. 175 - R. Krahl, Yuegutang. Ein Berliner Sammlung Chinesischer Keramik, Berlin 2000, p. 222, no. 176
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