Northern Song Dynasty|Of globular form, covered under a lustrous glaze of dark brown stopping short of the dressed purple-brown colour foot, the rim slip-decorated with a white band, velvet box. 11cm (4 3/8in) wide (2).|北宋 磁州窯黑釉白沿小罐Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong circa 1980s-1990s來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港Compare a related brownish-black-glazed jar, Henan ware, Northern Song dynasty, of similar lotus-bud form but without a white-glazed band to the rim, illustrated by B.Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, p.94, no.266.