A PAIR OF 'DING-TYPE' JARS AND COVERS SONG/JIN DYNASTY

each ovoid body rising from a short spreading foot to an angled shoulder and broad short straight neck, the tapering stepped cover surmounted by a small leaf-shaped knop, covered overall with a transparent ivory glaze, 9cm., 3 1/2 in;  together with a white-glazed bowl and cover

Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pls 488 and 361.

Pair of ding-type jars and covers: Both covers in good condition, one with a firing flaw 1 cm. Both with small nibbles to the underside rims. The jars also in good condition with expected nibbles on the rims, negligible. One jar taller than the other by approximately 3 mm. Areas of glaze pull and surface flaws original to the firing. The other jar and cover: In good condition overall with minor iron spots.
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