An Impressive Large Gray Pottery Jar Warring States Period / Western Han Dynasty

of compressed ovoid form, the wide shoulders tapering sharply down to a flat base, the exterior crisply impressed with a checkered pattern composed of small cross-hatched square and rectangular panels, the collar below the wide mouth and lipped rim left plain, the buff-colored body tinged orange from the firing with traces of golden-olive glaze on the collar and lip

Collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, USN (Ret'd)(Until 1982).
Sotheby's New York, 18th November 1982, lot 22.

Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 23rd March - 30th April 1972, cat.no. 40, fig. 25.

The jar is in good overall condition and maintains traces of the original olive glaze at the collar and lip. There are tiny negligible chips to the edge of the lip. Inspected under UV light, which did not show any fluorescence.
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This exceptional jar is similar to one in the Eumorfopoulos Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 6, pl. 1. The buff-colored stoneware of both examples are decorated with geometric impressions repeated throughout the surface.