China: Ceramics

C03a
Jar of globular form
Song dynasty, 13th century
height 8cm

 
Porcelain jar, with underglaze cobalt-blue chrysanthemum decoration and a transparent pale blue glaze stopping short of the foot, and two horizontal lugs on its shoulder.
 

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 46 (exhibition catalogue)