Lot 202. An olive green-glazed stoneware jar, Sui dynasty (581 - 618); Height 5 3/4  in., 14.7 cm. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot sold 9,375 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the globular body rising from a slightly concave solid foot to a short neck, incised with two narrow grooves and applied with three double-stranded loop handles, covered with a crackle-suffused transparent olive-green glaze, stopping irregularly above the foot to expose the fine buff body, Japanese wood box (3).

Provenance: Purchased in Osaka, 1987.  

Exhibition: Chugoku bijutsu ten series: Zui To no bijutsu [Chinese Art exhibition series; The art of Sui and Tang dynasty], vol.3, Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, 1976, cat. no. 1:3. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 16 mars 2016, 10:00 AM