AN UNUSUAL LARGE YUE PERFORATED JAR WESTERN JIN DYNASTY, 3RD CENTURY AD

of globular form with a wide mouth encircled by a pair of concentric grooves flanked by two applied loop handles with molded linear decoration, the body with five or six rows of small irregularly spaced circular apertures, the base with seven further apertures, the upper body covered with a pale gray-green glaze

There are two fine haircracks, each extending from below a perforation in the fourth row down, and extending down to the base, on opposite sides of the jar. There is also expected wear to the glaze. Otherwise the jar is in good condition.
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There appears to be no other published example of a jar of this type with perforations over the entire form. The Provincial Museum of Zhejiang in Hangzhou has a related form with four rows of holes which is described as a type of censer. For an illustration and further discussion on this interesting form see Céladon - Grès des Musées de la Province de Zhejiang, Chine, Paris, 2005, p. 91, no. 27.