A FINE PHOSPHATIC-SPLASHED OVIFORM JAR Tang Dynasty Heavily potted on a flat foot with a bevelled edge rising steeply to a high well-rounded shoulder, turning inwards to a broad slightly-tapering neck and terminating in a rolled rim, set with a pair of loop handles on the shoulder issuing from thick stud bosses, the pale buff-grey stoneware body covered inside and out with an opaque chocolate-brown glaze stopping in an irregular curve above the foot and suffused with large flowing splashes of milky grey-blue. 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 唐 花釉雙系罐 The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no.P207m68, dated 17 December 2007, is consistent with the dating of this lot. Oxford Authentication Ltd公司熱釋光檢測結果（2007年12月17日，編號P207m68）顯示年代與本拍品年代一致。 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2008, no.20. 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2008年，編號20 This type of jar was made at the Huangdao kiln in Jia County, Henan Province, which was discovered in 1964. Compare with a very similar jar illustrated in Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, p.210, no.195. For other wide-mouthed examples see He Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide, London, 2006, no.152; and M.Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl.19c. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com