TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Tang jars and covers of this type were made in various sizes and often with a monochrome glaze. Other white ware examples with a clear glaze include a similar jar and cover of comparable size in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by M. Prodan, The Art of the T'ang Potter, 1961, pl. 100 and another example of larger size (24.2 cm. high) illustrated in Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Eskenazi, London, 1974, pl. 14. A jar of this type with a cover (21.7 cm. high), as well as four jars without covers, of varying sizes (14.3 to 25.5 cm. high), are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 97, pl. 261 and p. 83, pls. 219-22.