A 'PHOSPHATIC' GLAZED JAR WITH LUG HANDLES Tang dynastyA 'PHOSPHATIC' GLAZED JAR WITH LUG HANDLESTang dynastyWell-potted with deep sides and high shoulder tapering down to a short splayed foot and flat base, a pair of loop handles flanking the shoulders, the wide mouth with short straight neck and everted lip, glazed inside and out a third way down in very deep brown tone, the exterior with four thick strokes of cream and icy blue, the top of mouth rim and lower body unglazed, revealing buff stoneware body burnt in patches of orange and brown. 7 1/2in (19.3cm) diameter唐 河南魯山窯黑花釉罐Lushan kiln in Henan province was well-known in the Tang dynasty for this type of beautiful glaze. Another group of Tang ceramic vessels decorated in very similar manner has been categorized as "Huangdao ware," also produced in Henan province. As Mowry described in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, p. 96, "[Shards] excavated at Lushan indicate that pieces from the Duandian kiln have thick, opaque brown glazes, their bluish white suffusions of well-defined shape, with crisp edges. Reginal Krahl states that pieces from the Huangdao kiln often have thinner, more translucent, brown glazes and that their suffusions tend to be streaked and irregularly shaped, with fuzzy edges." Compare the closely related large ovoid jar with four loop handles in the collection of the Newark Museum, illustrated by Mowry, op. cit., pp. 94-97, no. 8, described as Lushan ware, from the Duandian kiln, Lushan county, Henan province. Compare also the tall Lushan ware vase similarly decorated with four strokes of milky glaze over very dark brown glaze, in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art, gifted by the Honorable and Mrs. Hugh Scott, illustrated on the museum's website, accession number F1981.3.