Lot 204. A Blue-Splashed Pottery Jar, Tang Dynasty; 16cm., 6 1/4 in. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Lot sold 9,375 GBP. Photo Sotheby's

the broad-shouldered body rising from a short spreading foot to a waisted short neck with everted rolled rim, covered overall in a pale whitish glaze suffused with irregular blue splashes, all falling short of the base to reveal the pale pinkish-buff body.

Provenance: The Property of a Lady.
Sotheby's London, 2nd March 1971, lot 122.
Eskenazi, London.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London, 7 november 2012