Lot 58. A phosphatic-splashed jar and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907). Height 11 1/2  in., 29.2 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 HKD. Photo Sotheby's.

of ovoid form rising from a short splayed foot to high rounded shoulders, surmounted by a short neck with lipped rim, the stoneware body covered overall with a dark brown glaze, the shoulders with three large uneven splashes of mottled milky blue, the glaze ending in an uneven line short of the base, the domed cover with flaring rim and bud-form finial (2). 

Note: For a jar of similar form and decoration but of smaller size, see one published in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 312; and another in the Meiyintang Collection illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection London, vol. 1, 1994, no. 211.

Sotheby's. Song Tradition: Early Ceramics from the Yang De Tang Collection. New York, 17 mars 2015, 11:00 AM