Song Dynasty
Comprising: a jar of rounded body rising to a cylindrical neck terminating in a lipped rim, the interior covered in a persimmon-brown glaze, the exterior in biscuit, finely combed with a design of concentric circles and applied with a row of bosses; and a jar of compressed rounded body rising to a flaring mouth rim, covered overall in a brown glaze, the flat base left unglazed, revealing the greyish body beneath.
The largest: 11cm (4 3/8in) diam. (2).
Footnotes
宋 褐釉罐兩件
Provenance: Acquired in 2000 (the glazed jar)(collector's notes)
Acquired in November 2002 (the jar with biscuit exterior)(collector's notes)
See a similar jar with interior persimmon-brown glaze, Song-Yuan dynasty, in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, BATEA 127.