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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION

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A RARE RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED JAR AND COVER

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The compressed globular jar is covered with a black glaze decorated with fve large, evenly-spaced russet
streaks below the thin brown glaze on the short neck that ends at the unglazed mouth rim, the black glaze
on the body falling irregularly on a russet glaze ending in an even line above the knife-cut foot exposing the
pale brownish-grey ware. The dished cover with knob handle is similarly glazed and decorated with three
russet streaks.
5 in. (12.6 cm.) diam.
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 12 September 2005.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.
Covered jars and bowls were popular in both northern and southern China in the Song-Jin period.
Scholars have suggested these vessels were used for holding water in the making of tea. Water was
stored in large jars to allow the impurities to settle to the bottom, and when water was required for tea
some was ladled out into one of these small covered jars.
Dark-glazed vessels of this type, with large, evenly-spaced russet splashes, usually numbering between
three and fve, were popular wares produced at various Cizhou-type kilns in the north in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. Two jars of similar shape, but with smaller russet splashes and lacking their covers,
are illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collction, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 254,
nos. 460 and 461.
北宋/金 黑釉鐵鏽斑蓋罐

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