the white body strikingly covered in bold vertical green stripes with wax-resist florettes, flanked by cobalt, straw and amber-glazed stripes, all below an amber-glazed short neck with a rolled lip.

Provenance: The collection was formed in China between the 1920s-50s.

Note: This Tang jar is unusual for its decoration not only in the traditional sancai  colors but also with stripes in cobalt-blue glaze.  A slightly larger sancai  jar of similar shape and floral design, but lacking the blue stripes, was included in the Special Exhibition of Tang Tri-colour, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1994, pl. 81; and another, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibtion Wares of the T'ang Dynasty, London, 1949, cat.no. 45, was sold in our London rooms, 26th June 1973, lot 9. A third jar also decorated with florettes and stripes, with a matching cover, in the British Museum collection, is illustrated in Margaret Medley, T'ang Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1981, pl. 29.