Lot 2902. A rare and large blue and straw-glazed baluster jar, Tang dynasty (618-907); 10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 500,000 - HKD 800,000. Price realised HKD 625,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017

The high-shouldered body tapering to a slightly everted foot and flat base, with shallow waisted neck and lipped rim. The exterior covered with a rich dark blue glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the buff pottery, the interior covered with a straw glaze of pale amber tone speckled in green glaze, box.

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 10 March 1996

Note: A similar example with a cover, is in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 25.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 29 November 2017, Hong Kong