An Olive-Brown-Glazed Stoneware Jar

TANG DYNASTY/FIVE DYNASTIES PERIOD, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

细节

An Olive-Brown-Glazed Stoneware Jar
Tang Dynasty/Five Dynasties period, 9th-10th century
Probably from the Yaozhou Huangbao kilns, the tapering bulbous body surmounted by a wide, shallow neck rising to an everted rim, covered with a matte glaze of dark, speckled olive-brown color falling short in an irregular line on the inside of the neck and on the exterior above the thick, spreading foot
4 3/4in. (12cm.) high; 5 1/2in. (14cm.) across
Falk Collection no. 9.

来源

Mathias Komor, New York, February 1952.

拍品专文

This is probably from the Yaozhou Huangbao kilns, which made black-glazed wares in the Tang and Five Dynasties period. When these black glazes were underfired they produced fine crystals when cooling, giving greenish, yellowish, and brownish microcrystalline effects.