J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A small Jizhou pottery jar decorated in the same abstract style and technique from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art is illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, p. 236, no. 93, with a long caption including a detailed description of the ‘brushed-on’ or ‘trailed slip’ technique used in decorating these wares, saying “Chinese sources often refer to glazes of the type covering this jar as sayou (literally, “poured glazes” or “sprinkled glazes”), a reference to the linear decoration’s abstract, unpredictable nature.”