A rare 'Hongzhou' celadon-glazed jar, Six dynasties | 六朝 洪州窰青釉盤口壺

Priestley & Ferraro, London, 22nd November 1995.

覺是軒，倫敦，1995年11月22日

Compare two related examples with similar plate-shaped rim and bridge-shaped loops on the shoulder, illustrated in Su Shu, 'Nanjing chutu de liuchao hongzhou yao ciqi' [Hongzhou kiln wares of the Six Dynasties period unearthed in Nanjing], Dazhong Kaogu, Nanjing, 2020, pls 55 and 56. Compare also a closely related example, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Qingfeng cuise. Yueyao texzhan / Special Exhibition of Early Chinese Greenware. Principally Yueh Ware, Taipei, 1996, cat. no. 100; and three further examples, each with a longer neck than the current jar, illustrated in Yutaka Mino and Katherine R. Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds. Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis, 1987, pls 37, 37a and 37b.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford, no. 766j90.