Lot 1959. A small phosphatic glaze-splashed brown-glazed jar, Tang dynasty (618-907), 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 11,250 © Christie's Images Ltd 2011

The globular body applied with a pair of loop handles and covered with a matte brown glaze decorated with swirls of milky bluish-white glaze that sweep around the shoulder and sides as well as the short neck and inside the everted rim, the glaze falling short of the foot to expose the granular ware burnt slightly orange in the firing. 

Provenance: Gisèle Croës, Brussels, 1984.  

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Parts I & II), 22 - 23 March 2012, New York