A 'Xing' white-glazed jar, Tang dynasty - photo Sotheby's
rising from a flat base to wide rounded shoulders and curving in sharply at the short upright neck with wide rolled mouthrim, applied overall with a fine milky-white glaze pooling to a greenish tint around the neck and stopping just before the foot, Japanese wood box (4); Height 7 7/8 in., 19.9 cm - Estimation: 5,000 - 7,000 USD
PROVENANCE: Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, acquired between 1960-1969.
NOTE: For a similar white-glazed jar of slightly larger size in the Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, see Zuito no bijuyutsu (Arts of Sui and Tang), series 3, Osaka, 1980, p. 8, fig. 36; and another in the Idemitsu Art Gallery, but with a cover, illustrated in Chugoku kodai no bijitsu (Ancient Chinese Works of Art), Tokyo, 1978, fig. 166.
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 19 mars 2013 - www.sothebys.com