NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY

The technique of painting dark slip stripes on an ivory-white ground is very rare and may represent the precursor for later Song Cizhou-type black-glazed jars decorated with vertical bands in white slip, such as the jar from the Bernat Collection sold at Sotheby’s New York, 7 November 1980, lot 172. A smaller jar (12.7 cm. diam.) dated to the Northern Song dynasty and decorated with groups of vertical brown stripes against an ivory-white ground, from the Peter Scheinman Collection, was sold at Christie’s New York, 13-14 September 2018, lot 1282. See, also, the cup and saucer decorated with groups of vertical lines and floral motifs in black slip against a white ground, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 194, no. 578, where it is described as Song dynasty Hsiu-wu ware.