A BLACK-GLAZED 'RIBBED' JAR Northern Song/Jin DynastyTHE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN FAMILY 歐洲家族藏品A BLACK-GLAZED 'RIBBED' JARNorthern Song/Jin DynastyThe jar of ovoid form rising to a short neck with lipped rim, the body applied with evenly-spaced raised vertical trails of white slip, the shoulders set with a pair of ridged and tapering strap handles, covered overall in a black glaze thinning to a a cream colour on the raised ribs and stopping short of the foot exposing the buff-coloured body. 20.3cm (8in) high. 北宋/金 黑釉棱線紋雙繫罐Provenance: an American private collectionSotheby's New York, 13 September 2016, lot 140An important European private collection, and thence by descent來源：北美私人舊藏紐約蘇富比，2016年9月13日，拍品編號140歐洲私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今 Notable for its large, wide-mouthed globular body and its lustrous dark glaze, the present jar is a remarkable example of Cizhou-type wares produced at numerous kilns in Henan, Hebei and Shandong Provinces in North China during the twelfth century. The attractive ribs were meticulously applied in slip onto the surface of the vessel before the application of the glaze, creating a striking contrast between the raised ridge and the convex areas with the darker glaze. Dark-glazed, high-fired ceramic vessels were highly regarded as solid, practical wares. Their production began during the Tang dynasty (618-907) and rapidly spread throughout China. The development of black wares during the Northern Song period (960-1127) appears to have been inspired by contemporaneous plain lacquerware, and different kilns developed their own styles. Ribs made of white slip were first used on ceramics during the Tang dynasty in imitation of lacquer and silver; later they were added to the exterior body of the vessel during the tenth and eleventh century and ribbing finally emerged as an important tool of decoration in its own right by the twelfth century.A nearly-identical black-glazed ribbed jar, Northern Song to Jin period, in the Arthur M.Sackler Museum, Cambridge MA, is illustrated in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge MA, 1995, p.176, no.61.A similar but slightly smaller black-glazed ribbed jar, Northern Song/Jin dynasty, in the New Orleans Museum of Art, is illustrated in Heaven and Earth Seen Within, New Orleans, 2000, no.30; another example in the British Museum, London is illustrated by J.Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl.53k. Compare with a similar ribbed black-glazed jar, Northern Song/Jin dynasty, formerly in the Sakamoto Goro collection, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 17 March 2015, lot 6.sold_price_type: £