A lathe jar with high round foot, large globular body and thick flared neck. The exterior covered with amber glaze interrupted by sporadic abstract decorations, in the colors that prefigure the traditional sancai Tang terracotta figures. This peculiar shape is based on contemporary bronze and lacquer prototypes and constitutes their cheaper version.
The jar has been TL tested by Doreen Stoneham laboratory, Oxford, dated April 1993.
Provenance: private Italian collection, published in "Ways to Asia. Treasures from China, Thailand, Cambodia and Resonances in Western Modernism". Hachmeister Gallery, Münster, Germany, 28 September 2013 - 22 February 2014, p. 80.