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Large White-ware Jar
Late Sui - earlyTang Dynasty, 7th c. A.D., China
Height: 26cm
(Not for sale - for exhibition only.)
A large stoneware jar with a straight collar neck and ovoid body with four double lug handles on the shoulder. The jar is covered with a pale green crackled glaze that pools to a deeper green in drips about two-thirds down the body. The bottom third of the body is unglazed revealing a white stoneware clay-body that sits on a flared, flat-bottomed foot. Repaired areas of glaze flaking and chips to the handles.
See similar in Sekai Toki Zenshu, Ahogakukan, 1976, vol. 11, pl. 108.
Provenance: From a private American collection and previously from a Japanese collection.
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