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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER
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A BLACK-GLAZED ‘OIL-SPOT’ JAR
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Of globular form, the jar is covered with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze and decorated with irregular rows
of silvery splashes. The interior covered with a thin brown glaze, and the lower body and broad foot are left
unglazed to show the fne-grained ware.
5æ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.
$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE
George de Menasce (1890-1967) Collection, no. 475.
Spink & Son Ltd., London, 5 May 1971.
Ira and Nancy Koger Collection, Jacksonville, Florida.
Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 208.
EXHIBITED
London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Sung Dynasty Wares: Chun and Brown Glazes, 1-31 May 1952.
LITERATURE
The Oriental Ceramic Society, “Sung Dynasty Wares: Chun and Brown Glazes”, The Transactions of the
Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1951-1953, vol. 27, no. 65.
Spink & Son Ltd., The George de Menasce Collection, Part I, London, 1971, p.22, no. 40.
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