Tang dynasty (618 – 907)
The globular jar is supported on three modelled animal legs covered with an amber glaze around the short wide neck, and with green, cream and amber glaze around the body, running down in streaks and revealing the white unglazed earthenware, the interior is partly covered with a yellowish straw-coloured glaze, three spur marks on the rim
Height 13.8 cm, Japanese wooden box
Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence test no. 366j42
Provenance: Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1985, no. 9711(label)
A Japanese private collection
