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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION

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A HENAN ‘ROULETTED’ OVOID JAR

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The ovoid body is decorated with rows of oblique striations rouletted through a purplish-brown slip to the
white under slip that also covers the mouth and base, all under a clear glaze. The interior is covered with
the same purplish-brown slip under a clear glaze.
4 in. (9.8 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Priestley & Ferraro, London, 1 December 2001.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.
A number of similar jars of comparable size and with this unusual ‘rouletted’ decoration have been
published. See, for example, the jar with matching cover in The Seattle Art Museum, included in the
exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch’ien Lung, Los Angeles County
Museum, 14 March - 27 April, 1952, no. 227; the jar illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the
Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1999, p. 66, no. 22; the jar in The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka,
illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Hakutoh-ro Collection, Osaka, 2003, p. 34, no. 87; the example
in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and formerly in the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Collection, illustrated by
R. D. Jacobson, Appreciating China, Minneapolis, 2002, no. 118; and the jar formerly in the F. Brodie and
Enid Lodge Collection, sold at Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 2000, lot 137.
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