Lot 486. A miniature brown-glazed ribbed jar, Song dynasty (960-1279). Estimate 200 — 300 GBP. Lot Sold 6,250 GBP. Photo courtesy Sotheby's 2008

the globular body rising from a recessed base to a short broad mouth, slip decorated around the exterior with vertical ribs and covered with a dark chocolate-brown glaze thinning to a buff tone along each rib, the glaze falling short of the base to reveal the slip-painted ribs and greyish-brown body, 5cm., 2in; together with a large similarly decorated and glazed jar, set at the shoulder with four lug handles. Quantity: 2.

Literature: Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl.267 (miniature jar).