A Chinese Cizhou ovoid jar, Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), with five sets of three vertical pale brown ribs on a bluish black glaze, recessed base, 9.4 cm high. Reference: see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 1, 1994, cat. No. 450 for a brown-glazed example of similar shape. Provenance: R. & V. Tregaskis