China: Ceramics

C06
Jar of guan form
Ming dynasty, 15th century
height 14.5cm

 
Jar of guan form, constructed in two sections with a horizontal joint visible inside jar. White body with clear glaze inside and out excepting the flat unglazed base. Early dehua ware, Fujian province.
 

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

published: John Guy, Oriental Trade Ceramics in South-East Asia, Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries, Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics series, 1986, number 21, pages 83-84