Lot 30. A ‘Cizhou’ ‘Rouletted’ jar and cover, Northern Song dynasty; 10cm., 4in. Estimate 7,000 — 10,000 GBP (9,496 - 13,565 EUR). Lot sold 27,500 GBP. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

the ovoid body rising from a straight foot to a wide neck, the grey stoneware body covered with a creamy-white slip and a dark chocolate-brown overslip, cut to the body with a roulette forming bands of short oblique strokes in close-packed rows, the exterior applied with a clear glaze and the interior with a cascaded greenish-brown glaze, the domed cover similarly decorated, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 3 

Exhibition:  Sō ji meihin ten [Exhibition of Sung ceramics celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Japan Ceramic Society], The Japan Ceramic Society,Tokyo, 1955, cat. no. 123.
Tō Sō meitō ten [Exhibition of Tang-Song Ceramics], Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, 1964, cat. no. 203.

Bibliography: Gakuji Hasebe, Sō no Jishu you. Tōki zenshū. [Jishuyou of Song dynasty. The complete works of ceramics], Tokyo, 1958, pl. 36.
Fujiō Koyama, et. al., Sekai tōji zenshū. Sō Ryō [Collection of world ceramics. Song and Liao dynasty], Tokyo, 1961, pl. 103.
Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, Oxford, 1976, pl. 94. 

Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, Londres, 13 mai 2015, 10:00 AM