Lot 456. A white stoneware jar, 10th century; 11cm., 4 3/8 in. Estimate 200 — 300 GBP. Lot Sold 8,750 GBP. Photo courtesy Sotheby's 2008

the compressed globular lobed body rising from a short spreading foot to and incurved rim with broad collar, covered overall in a clear ivory-white glaze over a white slip.

Exhibited: Kunst Industri Museet, Copenhagen, 1950, cat. no. 271.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 300.