Lot 201
PAINTED CIZHOU TWIN-HANDLE JAR
YUAN/MING DYNASTY
Auction: 16 May 2018 at 17:00 BST
£1,250
Description
well potted with a compressed globular body and wide rim, set with two loop handles, applied with a white slip stopping well above the foot and exposing the light grey stoneware, the upper portion of the body covered with a crackled creamy-white glaze and painted with two sprays of foliage in black
Dimensions
18cm wide
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Edinburgh collection; purchased from Frank Caro Chinese Art New York with original receipt dated 06.08.1964.
Note:
For a similar twin-handle Cizhou jar, however dated Song Dynasty, see Sotheby's sale in their Hong Kong rooms on 1st June, 2015, lot 603, sale HK0578.