A 'Ganzhou' 'rice measure' jar, Song - Yuan dynasty

Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2013.

Song Dynasty Ceramics: The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2013, cat. no. 52.

Jars of this type were possibly made in imitation of basketwork rice measures and are known from the Ganzhou kilns, located in Jiangxi province. Compare a closely related jar sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 4th April 2017, lot 3075; another included in the exhibition Song Chinese Ceramics. 10th to 13th Century, Eskenazi, London, 2003, cat. no. 19; and a third from the Scheinman collection published in Robert Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996, pl. 110.