Lot 5. A ‘Yueyao’ brown-splashed jar, Tang dynasty; 25cm., 9 7/8 in.  Estimate 4,070 - 6,783 EUR. Lot sold 5,227 EUR. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

the compressed globular body rising to a short waisted neck with everted rim, applied to the exterior with a transparent olive-green glaze splashed with broad vertical strokes in brown, the glaze stopping unevenly above the foot, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 2.

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo.

Bibliography: Seiichi Okuda, Sakutarō Tanaka, Fukosai Hirota, Haruzo Hayashi (eds), Chūgoku no tōji [Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1955, pl. 59.
Ryūsen Shūhō. Sōgyō shichijū shūnen kinen/Mayuyama: Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, pl. 121.

Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, Londres, 13 mai 2015, 10:00 AM