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PROPERTY FROM THE LINYUSHANREN COLLECTION
1713
A RARE QINGBAI ‘RICE MEASURE’ JAR
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The exterior is fnely incised with parallel lines forming concentric semi-circles
on two sides. A row of iron-spot bosses encircles the shoulder between two
incised lines. The jar is covered inside and out with a glaze of even pale blue
color that ends in an irregular line around the unglazed, fat base which has
burnt pale orange in the fring, and around the unglazed center of the interior.
4¬ in. (11.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
Kochukyo, Tokyo.
Jars of this type are often referred to as ‘rice measures’. A similar but smaller
qingbai example (6.5 cm. high) is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics (another view with box)
in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 333, no. 621, where the
author notes that others of this type were made as early as the Northern
Song period.
南宋/元 青白褐彩柳斗罐
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