A Chinese Jizhou 'Guan' jar; Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279); of compressed baluster form with a rolled rim, covered in a rich iron brown glaze and splashed with a lighter phosphatic glaze, with a Chinese cloth covered box. Height 11.4 cm, diameter 13.5 cm. Provenance: K.Y. Fine Art, Hong Kong. Sotheby's, London, Asian Art, 9 November 2018, lot 203. Private collection, Sydney. Exhibited: 'Objects of Desire: the classic age of Chinese ceramics song to Yuan Dynasties, 10th to 14th Centuries',. Asian Arts Institute of Australia, Sydney, 2013, cat. No. 74