Lot 810. A small bronze jar and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907); 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high, cloth box. Estimate USD 5,000 – USD 7,000. Unsold. © Christie's 2023

The ovoid jar has a flat base and the high shoulders are cast with three double lines. The slightly domed cover has matching double line bands and is surmounted by a bud finial. Both have a scattered reddish-brown patina with areas of malachite encrustation.

Provenance: J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4623.

Note: A similar small bronze jar of this form, without a cover, in the collection of Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Izumi, is illustrated in Chugoku no kyodo: rokuro hiki no seidoki (Tin-Bronze of China: Bronzes of the Potter’s Wheel), Osaka, 1999, p. 45, no. 88.

Christie's. J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 23.03.2023