A black-glazed and ribbed jar, Northern Song-Jin Dynasty. Estimate 120,000 — 150,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

the compressed globular body applied with closely spaced slightly slanted vertical lines, unctuously covered in a glossy brownish-black glaze with russet streaks thinning to beige at the ribs, falling short of the lower body and slightly splayed foot to reveal the buff-coloured stoneware body, the interior with a thin layer of brown glaze; width 13.6 cm., 5 3/4  in.

Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2005.
Collection of Robert M. Ferris IV, Windsor, Vermont.
Collection of Dr. William Goldstein, Connecticut. 

Exhibition: Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2005, cat. no. 24.

Sotheby's. Contemporary Literati: Curiosity, Hong Kong, 05 avr. 2015