CHINA, SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

A similar covered jar, but lacking the incised vertical lines on the body and with taller neck, is illustrated in Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from the Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 148, pl. 32, where it is cited that such covered vessels were used as storage containers for food and tea powder. Another jar with ten lobes and more bluish glaze from the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by S. Pierson (ed.), Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 2002, p. 172, pl. 91.