China: Ceramics

C03b
Jar of cuboid form
Song dynasty, 13th century
height 6cm

 
Porcelain jar, with underglaze cobalt-blue floral decoration on each of its four vertical faces, covered with a pale blue yingqing glaze which stops short of the foot, and two scroll-like lugs adjacent to its square mouth.
 

ex: Chang Chi Hung Family Collection, Hong Kong, 1971, and brought to Australia by Jane Carnegie

published: Mae Anna Pang, Chinese Ceramics from Private Collections, National Gallery of Victoria, 1973, number 47 (exhibition catalogue)
published: John Guy, Oriental Trade Ceramics in South-East Asia, Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries, Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics series, 1986, number 51, page 91