Rare Chinese Tang Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Cover

This "heavily-potted" stoneware jar, complete with its original cover, was made during the Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 906). Like most Tang jars, its form is particularly pleasing. The finely-crackled transparent pale olive-green glaze is quite "streaky" and coats around the upper three-quarters of the outer surface, as well as the cover. The lower body remains unglazed showing the white stoneware body. Although the inside of the mouth is also coated in the green glaze, the inner surface of the jar is coated in a dark brown glaze. Note the unusual form of the cover, allowing it to be placed upside down steadily and possibly used as a small bowl. Of course, it is extremely rare for any Tang jar to have retained a cover of any sort, let alone what is so clearly its original cover.

Height 24 cm (9.5 inches). There are two areas of repair to the rim edge that have been painted over. It seems that this paint covers an area larger than the actual repair in an attempt to disguise it. Overall though, this is a nice and very rare jar in good presentable condition.

For information: this jar is part of a modest yet very interesting private English collection of Chinese antiquities acquired during the 1990s that we recently acquired.

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