CHINA, SUI-EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY

A larger ink stone of similar shape (23.5 cm.) described as stoneware and partially covered with a transparent glaze of very pale green color, which is dated Sui-early Tang, is illustrated by G. Tsang and H. Moss in the exhibition catalogue, Arts of the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 220-21, no. 202. See, also, two other similar examples, illustrated by Zhang Bai in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Beijing, 2008, one larger (28.2 cm.) dated Sui dynasty, from Hebei province, vol. 3, no. 27, where it is called white-glazed, but where the transparent glaze appears to have a greenish tint, the other, also called white-glazed, of more comparable size, 12.8 cm., dated Tang dynasty, from Hubei province, vol. 13, no. 62.